The repair shop at Strasburg Rail Road is fully stocked. There are locomotives from the 1800s, antique tools and plenty of spare parts. But a woman has never graced the shop. That changed recently ...

This is a model train produced by Hornby / Meccano around 1954. It's pretty rusted and the clockwork mechanism was completely seized. I didn't want to disassemble this engine not to damage the ...

‘Tis the season for lots of fun scents and sights like gingerbread houses, mistletoe, candy canes and, of course, model trains. Many businesses and fire companies delight visitors with elaborate model ...

Model railroading—a hobby enjoyed by tens of thousands—apparently has an inherently built-in solution for delivering electrical power to its locomotives. The model layout is in a confined, fixed ...

An original Reading Railroad locomotive may soon be back on the tracks. After more than a decade of work, a project to restore Locomotive No. 2100 is wrapping up, according to representatives of ...

Locomotives thunder past English boxwoods and a Japanese red maple in the Manheim Township backyard of Mark and Mary Beth Oles. The trains whistle and smoke as they haul passenger and freight cars ...

South Devon Railway Engineering (SDRE) has just completed a major repair and repaint of a former high-speed train (HST) power car for Colas Rail UK. The locomotive repair was the first such contract ...