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 ...

There's a locomotive tearing through Ken Murry's well-tended garden. And there's a passenger train barreling through Mel Pankuch's pristine backyard. That's just fine with both men. Murry, 69, of ...

The inaugural Great Lakes Large Scale Train Expo was so successful last year that they're doing it again Friday and Saturday.

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...