With eight miles of track and 100 trains, the 52,000-square-foot display over 16 acres at Northlandz is the Guinness Book of World Records’ largest model railroad.

Modelers operated stations for installing computer chips, creating trees and scenery or guiding construction of model railroad cars.

A rural area with trees sits just behind the town. The lighted display sits on an 8-foot-by-7-foot table inside the model railroad tracks and slot car tracks traverse the model, simulating roads.

GATSME has already named it the Rockledge Model Railroad Museum and hopes to fill the space with various railroad scenes equipped with mountain ranges, trees, people and local buildings that ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Colorado Model Railroad Museum There are 150 locomotives, 2,000 freight cars, 23,000 hand-made miniature trees and more than 4,000 feet of track.

Although he was just 4 years old at the time, Scott Mason clearly remembers the first train set he ever received — 1950s vintage, used Lionel trains given to him for Christmas by a family friend.

The biggest model railroad club in the Northwest has hand-built everything from Union Station to Multnomah Falls in meticulous detail — with the occasional whimsical flourish (we see you, Bigfoot).

Model railroad club keeps track of the past An Amtrak model train passes a curve during the Spring 2015 Open House at the Glendale Model Railroad Club in Glendale on Saturday, May 2, 2015.

PORTLAND — Ever wonder what it would be like to be a giant towering over the Northwest landscape? You can find out firsthand at Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club, where even children loom like ...

Yep, a model train within a model train. The resulting model, measuring a tiny 1/8 inch by 1/5 inch, is the unofficial record holder of the world's smallest working train layout.