SALISBURY, Md. --- Michael Murray has lived in Salisbury all his life and has been building this tiny neighborhood for most of that time. He and his dog Mr. Beasley has a huge train display centered ...

It’s all about scale at the California State Railroad Museum.“I think we have a lot of think going for us. It's big trains — something about the scale of coming into a 225,000 square-foot facility and ...

WEBVTT THE COLLECTION.MAX: TUCKED IN A SOUTHSACRAMENTO WAREHOUSE SITS ACOLLECTION OF TRAINS.>> HEY, LOOK AT THESE TWMAX: THOUSANDS OF TRAINS.>> A LOT OF THE LOCOMOTIVES ARECOLORFUL FROM ...

Highlights: Marklin hand-painted early musical carousel, $120,000; circa-1912-1915 Marklin Series II model of ‘Battleship Brooklyn,’ $90,000. The Maloy collection was gathered over a period of 60 ...

Second and final installment held Oct. 30 was dominated by rare German Marklin productions, including a circa-1904 hand-painted III-Gauge live steam train that sold for $123K against a $50K-$70K ...

Do you have a favorite childhood toy that has been passed down through your family? I’m lucky to have a wind-up, cast-iron locomotive and tin train set that belonged to my dad. My grandfather, Albert ...

Handheld video games and other high-tech digital devices may be popular pastimes for today’s kids, but Judy Atwood suspects many of the children who visit Trainland U.S.A. become converts to good ...

If we are fortunate enough to have good genes, avoid fatal accidents, and escape catastrophic illness, it will come to all of us: old age. Model railroaders with huge layouts face a unique set of ...

The flamboyant millionaire Malcolm Forbes is credited with the line “He who dies with the most toys wins.” When he died on Dec. 20 at the age of 86, Cruickshank had an estimated 6,000 toy train models ...

Half of the collection - equating to 11,000 pieces, was donated to Queensland Museum is being catalogued in the Workshops Rail Museum, while the other half went to the University of Woolongong. While ...