"Railroading and coal mining, that's what's been our livelihood ... And it's railroading that's on display at the Lonesome Pine Model Railroaders giant layout in the basement of the cultural ...

Jeff Springer plays with model trains all day. And he gets paid for it. Mr. Springer is one of fewer than 20 people in the United States whose full-time occupation is building model train layouts.

Often, model train layouts get thrown out after their creator ... Narrow-gauge railways were common in Colorado, where they serviced the mining boom in the late 1800s. They included Noonan ...

A model railroad reminiscent of the kind that once chugged through the coal mining country of West Virginia treks up and across the plaster and plywood of a train layout built by the Garfield ...

These include open-house events by clubs with permanent layouts as well as train shows at various locations. The Trainmasters of Babylon, West Island Model Railroad Club, and Nassau Lionel ...