Three years ago, Cardiff resident Bob Shultz went on a hunt for an old toy train for his newborn grandson. He wanted something fun and not nearly as valuable as the only train he owned — a 1950s-era, ...

Did you know that model railroads are nearly as old as rail travel itself? America's first passenger and freight line, The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was founded in 1827. By the 1860s, wooden and ...

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) — a Unesco-recognised world heritage site — has become the source of inspiration and income for a 30-year-old man from Darjeeling district. Anurag Lakandry, a ...

There’s something magical about watching a toy train climb the mountains, snaking through green valleys and misty ridges. These toy trains, as they came to be called, are not just a traveller’s ...

The flamboyant millionaire Malcolm Forbes is credited with the line “He who dies with the most toys wins.” When he died on Dec. 20 at the age of 86, Cruickshank had an estimated 6,000 toy train models ...