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 ...

Back gardens typically contain grass lawns, furniture, sheds, and if you're lucky, a gnome. However, one train enthusiast has taken it a step further by meticulously creating a fully functioning ...

A model railway enthusiast has opened up the mini village in his garden to the public in order to raise money for charity - with visitors even welcome to hop aboard the ride-on-train. Geoff Powell has ...

When most homeowners move into a new property, they expect to find a few bits and bobs left behind – perhaps a couple of appliances or old cleaning supplies. But most people wouldn't expect to find a ...

Joe Sommer knows most of you have never heard of the Puget Sound Garden Railway Society, so try this: Picture the model train you or your brother had as a kid. Pump it up so the cars are eight to 10 ...

A Clovis couple have transformed their backyard garden into an oasis for model trains. Cal and Juanita Terrasas of Clovis have created a garden railway scene that depicts a train chugging its way ...

Starting on Black Friday, families can visit the Holiday Garden Railway at Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill. Visitors of all ages will enjoy seeing model trains chug by on a quarter-mile track ...

This story originally was published Dec. 7, 2017. It has been updated with information about the train expansion and a new covered bridge. As the engineer of Frysville Farms’ trains, Vincent Fry plans ...

Take a look at the membership of the Tucson Garden Railway Society and you’ll see couples who share the hobby of model trains running through the landscape. Creating a garden railroad layout often ...

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 ...

A Kentucky company that creates botanical garden railway empires full of familiar landmarks keeps on chugging on under a new family leader. Alexandria-based Applied Imagination, founded 30 years ago ...