Cherry Hill with her scale model of the 1931 Aveling & Porter road roller, which she built between 1966 and 1969 Cherry Hill, who has died aged 93, was one of the world’s foremost scale model ...

Charles Lester III knew from a very early age that his grandfather’s seven-foot wooden model of a steam locomotive was something to be looked at, not played with. “My father used to pile things up in ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

Model train connoisseurs have a great opportunity to share that passion with others at the N.C. Transportation Museum. Steam Over Spencer: A Live Steam Model Train event is taking place on March 6-8 ...

A steam locomotive that has been on display at the Franklin Institute for the last 90 years was recently removed and will be relocated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,' the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist, the replacement ...