A model train display that fills a Palos Park basement was the subject of a recent McCord Gallery and Cultural Center ...

FRANKFORT, Ill. (AP) -- In the past year, Patricia Ethell has seen a lifetime's worth of train wrecks and derailments, some of them set to songs like ``I've Been Workin' on The Railroad.'' As the ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH -- Augie Svatek has been searching for the light at the end of the tunnel for most of his life. He finds it regularly, too, as it greets him chugging around the bend -- usually pulling ...

At 91 years young, Al Boos may be the oldest kid in the San Antonio area who still plays with model trains. Not toy trains, mind you. These are exacting replicas of the real thing. Hyper-detailed, ...