For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

Gail Bonsor, chairwoman of the Trees and Trains Committee of the Lorain Growth Main Street Lorain Development Corporation, works with Ramhog Shearer, of the National Model Railroad Association ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LORAIN, Ohio (WJW) — A lot of people have ...

HANOVER, Pa. — The holidays are upon us, and there's plenty to do and see across central Pennsylvania for those in the festive spirit! The Greater Hanover Area Fire Museum and the Hanover Area ...

For more than a decade, Rob Caves has invited the public to his Altadena backyard to experience an ever-growing model train universe built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree Lane ...

A hiss of steam, then a loud whistle blast, shatters the calm as the locomotive prepares to depart from the station. A set of orders from the dispatcher is given to the engineer and the last of the ...

Model railroading has been around for more than a century, but even with all those trains whose sole purpose is to circumnavigate Christmas trees, the hobby has receded somewhat from the public eye.

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