(CNN) — Nina Andersson and her friend Loa hoped they’d have the train carriage to themselves. When Nina peered her head around the door and saw the compartment was empty, she grinned at Loa and ...

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity of model trains with the rise of a convenient, tabletop scale like HO.

The three men were friendly, apologetic, slightly out of breath. They explained they’d fallen asleep on their last train, and almost missed this one — in fact, this train had started rolling out of ...

It was summer 1990 and 20-year-old Nina was in the midst of traveling from Budapest, Hungary, to Athens, Greece — part of a month-long rail adventure with her friend Loa. The two friends had each ...