Ted Widenski remembers his first set of trains. His father bought them when he was 5 years old. They would remain neatly boxed until Christmas, then they would be set up around the tree for two weeks.

Before the pictures of his wife and children, the first photo you see when you walk into Michael S. Twiford’s office at Mike’s Trainland is one of Arthur J. ”Junie” Lancaster Jr. The older man, who ...

Cotton Bowen loves model trains. The Sterling resident is president of the Northern Virginia NTRAK club and has been a lifelong enthusiast of the hobby. Right up there with building model trains and ...

At Franciscan Hobbies, model trains account for nearly half of all sales at the 57-year-old Ingleside shop, making it the largest dealer of model trains in San Francisco. John Gunther, the shop's ...

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