At more than 7,000-square-feet, the backyard is landscaped with an impressive collection of ornamental grasses, perennials, groundcovers, roses, shrubs and small trees, as well a few boulders, ...

An old Western town has taken over Gary and Jonette Lee's backyard. Tiny Baker City, with its barbershop, cabins and stores, is part of a development crisscrossed by train tracks. Chugging through ...

Elaine G. Silets, internationally renowned designer and the only female manufacturer in the U.S. of model railroads and garden railways, is affectionately known as "The Train Lady." This weekend, she ...

One miniature log home on Jim Shaver's garden railway in Mound mirrors his own residence. Shaver designed and built both himself, and the mini one still took him plenty of time to construct — about ...

In Walt Pauli's world, the Columbia Hotel retains much of its magnificence, the station in Railroad Square still looks as it did in 1906 and the Rialto Theater is showing "Casablanca" with Bogart and ...

Railroad enthusiasts are getting a return trip this year to the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield. In addition to the annual Railroad Hobby Show held there each year in January by the ...

Trains and holiday traditions go together for several in the East Valley and across the Phoenix metro area. Each year, train lovers and model train enthusiasts who are members of the Arizona Big Train ...

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

With an invitation that seems to resound with a hearty “All Aboard,” the Arizona Big Train Operators have announced their Annual Spring Open House Railway Tour. For the 2013 Tour, 22 members — ...