This isn’t the first attempt to build a complete miniature railroad into a coffee table, but most to date have involved sunken layouts that sit inside a table and beneath a pane of glass so ...

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take ...

Scheerens in December 1999 started building a model train layout that would loop throughout his roughly 500-square-foot, one bedroom Everett apartment. He attached the railway to wooden planks and ...

The superlatives to describe this layout are many and begin with the coffee table itself, a free-form sculptural design intended to evoke the natural contours of a landscape.

The livingroom coffee table has long been a favorite realm of the model railroad. But what to do when you actually want to have coffee? [Peter Waldraff] has come up with a most eloquent answer to t… ...

Hugh Keen of Tulsa is a retired mechanical engineer. Now he's the engineer on his own model railroad layout. He has been building it for about 30 years and still going.

They‘ve been working on the railroad, but the 35 members of the Worcester Model Railroaders aren’t just passing the time away. Members have been building a model train layout that will fill ...

The model railroad layout was built by Helen and Harold “Buz” Beal in Jonesport. According to a news release, for decades, the couple opened their home to guests from all over the world to ...