It all started with a few trains, a couple of plastic houses, and a big lawn. Eight years later, Richard and Connie Banko have about nine different locomotives, 40 cars, about 60 hand-crafted wooden ...

In their backyard, Al and Bev Mann have 550 feet of model-railroad tracks that run past a pond, a waterfall, a market and a used-car dealership, among many other landmarks. But in 2005, the first year ...

Tucson Garden Railway Society members say John Fennema has one of the best layouts on the nonprofit’s March tour. Credit: Holly Harris G-scale train collectors are opening their gardens to the public ...

In the world of garden railways, lilliputian locomotives run through dwarf forests and chamomile meadows. Their miniature tracks circle bogs of carnivorous plants, glide over handmade wooden and stone ...

Train fans can crisscross the greater Portland area to see engines chugging through tunnels, across bridges and on trestles elevated over rivers with flowing water at 13 different railroad layouts ...

Train fans and garden appreciators can crisscross the greater Portland area to see compact engines chugging through tunnels, across bridges and on trestles at 14 different model railroad layouts ...

Model trains and gardens. They are two favorite hobbies. And people love putting the two together, as you can see in the free tour of area garden railways today sponsored by the Wichita Area Garden ...

On this train line, one car is dedicated to Mark Oles’ family, another is lined with photos of his wife Mary Beth’s family, and a third is dedicated to the couple on their wedding day. Elsewhere, ...

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 ...

Doug Connelly took a long look a few years ago when he saw a next-door neighbor winding an old garden hose around the backyard. That garden hose marked the path of his neighbor Frank Stellar’s grand ...