Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

One miniature log home on Jim Shaver's garden railway in Mound mirrors his own residence. Shaver designed and built both himself, and the mini one still took him plenty of time to construct — about ...

An old Western town has taken over Gary and Jonette Lee's backyard. Tiny Baker City, with its barbershop, cabins and stores, is part of a development crisscrossed by train tracks. Chugging through ...

Take a look at the membership of the Tucson Garden Railway Society and you’ll see couples who share the hobby of model trains running through the landscape. Creating a garden railroad layout often ...

There’s nothing like an intricate model train display to transport you to another time in a magical place. Take the front yard of the foothills home of John Carmichael and Philip Pappas. The Tucsonans ...