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Where does model railroading rank among Americans’ favorite hobbies? “It depends on whom you ask and how you define `hobby,’ ” says Jim Slocum, editor and publisher of Model Retailer magazine in ...

This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee has been a hub for model railroading since the 1930s. It's been home to a major supplier of model railroad kits and model railroad magazines. To this day, it's still ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

Kalmbach Media, a 90-year-old Wisconsin publisher, has sold its Model Railroader, Trains, Astronomy, and other magazines to a Tennessee publisher. The sale to Firecrown Media, of Chattanooga, also ...

October 1944. A Modesto barbershop. Bob Brown, 12, falls in love for the first time -- with model trains. As he waits to get his hair cut, he's captivated with the cover of the magazine, "Model ...

In Tuck’s Valley, the chuffing sound of steam and a clanging bell announce the arrival of Santa Fe locomotive 1795. The chuff slows, ending in a hiss as the engine stops, its smokestack as high 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 ...

WHEN I WALK into a “make-and-take” clinic at a meeting of model-railroad enthusiasts at Tacoma Community College, everyone is seated at long tables, deep in concentration, building structures they’ll ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...