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An interview with Jack Sommerfeld of Sommerfeld's Trains & Hobbies discusses the intricacies of running this brick-and-mortar ...
Bill Gunther, 77, the proprieter of 54-year-old Ingleside hobby shop, well remembers the model airplane he glued together out of balsa wood and tissue paper back around 1935. "It was a scale model ...
HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity of model trains with the rise of a convenient, tabletop scale like HO ...
Roanoke’s railroad “Glory Days” may be well in the past. But one aspect of the railroad community is alive and well.
Model trains are a large part of the overall hobby industry, and Lionel remains best known for its enduring line of trains. Other model train manufacturers: Athearn Atlas Bachmann Kato Hornsby ...
Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum in Sparta is closing at the end of July and its contents will be sold to the public, its co-owner, Wendy Molinari, recently told NJ Advance Media.
Dennis Lakomy has been collecting and running model trains since his dad gave him his first model train set in 1962. They are on display in his home near Port Huron and include an operating layout ...
Macavage said several model-train manufacturers were warning hobby shops about higher prices, with some manufacturers even suspending their future projects.
Model train collecting is a hobby that families have shared together over the generations — dating back to the time the popular model train manufacturer, Lionel Corporation, started producing ...