Dale Desser, of Erie, doesn't want visitors to simply watch his spectacular model railroad. He invites people to operate it.

It’s also the roughly 400 bridges made of balsa wood (the longest of which spans 40 feet), more than 1,000 model buildings and the nearly 300,000 pounds of plaster sculpted into deep canyons and ...

Buildings are assembled from kits, many of them reshaped and redesigned. Moylan’s passion first developed when, like other children, he received a Christmas train set one year.

Model railroad at Seashore Trolley Museum poised to open in 2024 Construction has commenced on the building that will house it; then comes set up, and new sections of rails and buildings and ...

A model depicts the interior of the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum,as displayed in EMRCA developers' North Adams office on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018.

The model goes beyond the six train stations, 100 buildings and some 5,000 trees and shrubs. Scully has frozen everything in time on that day back in July 1952.

Northlandz spreads over 16 acres and has thousands of handcrafted miniature structures. The site is located in Flemington, New Jersey, which is less than an hour and a half from Philadelphia.

So far, Caves estimated that his backyard train universe contains 30 scale miles of tracks. In non-model train speak, he explained, think of one scale mile as "if you were a tiny figure on the ...

We're now engaged." According to George, he spent eight years building the 200-foot-long model, which recreates a 1.5-mile-long stretch of real train tracks located in West Yorkshire.

A model railroad junkie, Ron Rosenberg is always hoping to track down the "holy grail of trains." "When I see it, it'll know me!" said the Harrison, N.Y., resident. Rosenberg might have some luck ...