HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

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Anyone who is familiar with H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos knows the fictional town of Arkham. Now you can see it realized as a town created by an HO-scale train enthusiast building the Miskatonic ...

The Los Angeles Model Railroad Society in Hawthorne has been running their HO scale trains since the mid 1970’s. James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, ...

Tour the HO scale (1:87.1) Chicago, Peoria & Western, John Brennan’s masterfully designed model railroad depicting the flatlands of Illinois in September 1940. Housed in a dedicated 35 x 45-foot ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

BOISE, Idaho — Chugging through Idaho’s history, model railroad clubs in the Treasure Valley serve as places of community. The smaller-than-life trains at the Old Boise Model Railroad Club and ...