It was always his dream to have a "big boy's train set" – and now James Ardin has built one in his back garden. His miniature, ride-on railway runs on a three-and-a-half acre (14,000sq m) plot at the ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia -- For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 383-yard-long narrow ...

A dispute with the East Bay Regional Parks District over a lease agreement is jeopardizing one of the most beloved children's ...

SEATTLE - Thieves stole a mini steam locomotive from a garage in West Seattle - and the entire crime was caught on surveillance video. At least two people broke into the building early Sunday morning.

Since first reaching Bloomington in 1853, railroads have loomed large in shaping our history. After all, before the rise of State Farm Insurance Co., the Chicago and Alton Railroad Shops on the city’s ...

Train Mountain is the world’s largest miniature railroad, with 36 miles of tiny track, weaving through 2,300 acres of forest in remote southern Oregon. It’s raining at Train Mountain, which makes the ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF/BCN) -- The Redwood Valley Railway AKA the steam trains in Tilden Regional Park will reopen on Saturday after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating hours for the ...

The day is a scorcher. It's barely noon, and sweat beads are rolling faster than the miniature trains everyone has come to ride. Vance Nickerson is the engineer of the only running steam engine of the ...

Before there was a Disneyland Railroad, Walt Disney had his own miniature live steam railroad at his home in Holmby Hills. Disney, of course, did things on a grand scale. As the studio became ...

Barbara Aitken shouted to her elementary school students, “Guys, get off the bridge! The train’s coming!” The kids were seated on a wooden trestle bridge, dangling their legs over the sides, as a ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia — For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 350-meter ...