A Financial Analyst and late Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke shared a passion for creating joy with vintage trains While they both worked at Duke, Travis Washburn and Dr. Thomas Kinney ...

This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a young child that we still thoroughly enjoy as an adult? Members of the ...

Some build them in their basements. But Dick Shellenberg's train set takes up most of his backyard. The retired elementary school principal has turned model train conductor in the town of Corning.

DESHLER, Neb. (KOLN) - Spring Creek Model Trains attracts “serious railroaders” from all over the world to Deshler - a town with a population of about 800 people. This business was born from high ...

MUSKEGON, MI— A nonprofit organization that preserves the railroad heritage of the Muskegon area has opened its annual holiday-themed event. Formed in 1983, the Muskegon Railroad Historical Society, ...

Eric Bauer shows some of his model train engines which are detailed almost exactly like the real thing. He has a set of yellow Union Pacific engines hooked to his cars and he is holding a CN, Canadian ...

The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

"After railroad school, I began my conductor's duties. There is no longer a caboose on most trains, rather, the conductor rides up front ahead of the engineer. Our job is to read a blueprint of the ...