Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

GIBSONIA, Pennsylvania (WJW) – Just north of Pittsburgh is one of the finest model train museums you’ll ever find anywhere. You have to see it to believe it. The tracks at the Western Pennsylvania ...

STRASBURG, Pa. — Hobbies come in all shapes and sizes. But for the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society, their massive mobile model is a passion. “It’s fun because we try to portray the old ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A Lancaster County railroad club held an open house for model train enthusiasts over the weekend. The ...

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — The Masonic Village & Elizabethtown Model Railroad Club (MV&E Model Rail Road Club) holds monthly open houses to show off their detailed, life-like model railroad tracks.

STRASBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is holding three days of railroading displays this month from Friday, August 18 to Sunday, August 20. At the Model Railroading Days visitors ...

POTTSVILLE — A special train carrying President. Harry S. Truman pulled into the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad station on East Norwegian Street on Oct. 22, 1952. Troops from Schuylkill County ...

Early in his boyhood, Red Lion’s Tristan Mundis faced a choice: games or rails. Video games, that is, versus model railroads. He chose the latter and gained a close partner in that hobby: his father, ...

MANY TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS DREAM OF DRIVING A REAL TRAIN, BUT THEY CAN’T. SO THE NEXT BEST THING IS TO PRETEND BY OPERATING A TRAIN AND A LIFE IMITATING MODEL RAILROAD EXHIBIT. AND WHAT BETTER TIME TO ...