The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.

Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a ...

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 ...