Club members stand amongst the huge HO scale model train layout while operating separate trains during an annual Holiday Train Show and open house by Model Railroad Club Inc. in Union on Saturday ...

Trainville Hobby Depot has once again compiled a guide list of locations to view operating model railroads, now until the end of April 2012. These include open-house events by clubs with permanent ...

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The 2021 Train Show and Open House will showcase special train operations that traverse the club’s sprawling, 11,000 square-foot HO scale layout.

Some area people into model railroading, which mimics real-life railroads by creating miniature models, say the hobby faces a decrease in participants and needs more young people to get involved.

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

Complete with actual dispatchers, radios, and engineers, Gaudet says this complex system of model trains is a big draw when the club hosts open houses.

The show brought in nearly 300 people daily for the past week. The museum science communicator Frank Torncello said the show is made to model train operations within the history of Schenectady.

Jackson Chapman, 3, of Sequim plays with a model train display during the 22nd annual Train Show and Swap Meet on Saturday at the Home Arts Building at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles.

This year, the display on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art is celebrating 50 years of operation. The model train display happened for the first time in 1972.

The excitement of electric model trains was not only in operating them, but the hours and hours of adding scenery, buildings, vehicles, figures and more to the layouts.