Transform copper wire, magnets and a battery into a simple electric train. Screengrab: Amazing Science For the kid expecting a Lionel model train set under the Christmas tree, unwrapping a pack of ...

An enthusiast has shared their first designs, melding the disparate worlds of PC DIY with model railroading. Beautiful-Turnip ...

Build a model train set, then ride around in first-person. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You might have seen me single out ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

Clickety-clack, a lonesome whistle and a train flashes by–these are not images usually associated with basements. Not unless you are Bob and Marcy Perrin. Bob Perrin is a railroad enthusiast whose ...

Howard Zane has been working on the railroad for thirty years--building a massive model train set complete with 150 locomotives, thousands of feet of track and more than 6,000 figures. He's expanded ...

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...