Price: $105.98 Manufacturer: Wm. K. Walthers Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218; 414-527-0770; walthers.com ...

Rapido HO scale PFE refrigerator cars Scale: HO (1:87.1) Price: Single car, $59.95; six-pack, $359.70 Era: 1957 to 1982 Manufacturer: Rapido Trains, 382 High St., Buffalo, NY 14204; 905-474-3314 ...

Flathead HO RR Module Group member Dennis Gray places his train cars on the track during the group's demonstration at the Kalispell Center Mall Saturday, November 27.

VAN WERT — Over 200 tables of model railroad train cars and engines as well as working model ... the O gauge is the largest at 1:48 scale (1.25 inches), HO is the next size smaller at 1:87 ...

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

Model Railroad Show Other highlights include seeing the museum’s vintage train cars, watching a blacksmith forge custom metal pieces and a special screening of the "Polar Express" in the Dome at ...

Since the 1950s, television, slot cars, plastic models and other diversions have diluted the attraction of model trains. But though model trains “have probably slid in popularity, they’ve ...

Snaking across the model railroad are some 1,300 trains made up of over 10,000 cars, but it’s what surrounds the trains that’s most impressive: nine distinct sections featuring detailed ...

The model railroad display is believed to be one of the largest in Maine built in HO scale (which is 1:87, or 3.5 mm to 1 foot), but it has not been on public display for the last few years.