Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

San Luis Obispo obstetrician Bernd Schumacher has a one-track mind when it comes to trains. He recently was named the new Guinness World Records holder for the largest collection of model trains with ...

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 ...

Nobody looks bored at a model train show. Some people stare intently at crisscrossing objects in motion. Others build or fix things with the analytical skills of an engineer. Still others explain the ...