COSTA MESA The whistle blew as the steam-powered locomotive barreled down the track, with children and parents sitting on top of the railroad cars enjoying the ride. That’s right, on top. The train ...

Take a trip up California's scenic railways to experience the awe-inspiring and towering redwoods and then swing by the ...

The day is a scorcher. It's barely noon, and sweat beads are rolling faster than the miniature trains everyone has come to ride. Vance Nickerson is the engineer of the only running steam engine of the ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia -- For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 383-yard-long narrow ...

Here’s the thing: America’s largest miniature train circuit isn’t a theme-park ride, it’s a landscape-scale hobbyist railroad built and maintained by people who treat railroading like a craft. Train ...

COOS BAY — The Snug Harbor Railroad, a miniature steam train that ran in Charleston in the 1950s and 1960s, has come home to the Bay Area and will be on display 3-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Oregon ...

Since first reaching Bloomington in 1853, railroads have loomed large in shaping our history. After all, before the rise of State Farm Insurance Co., the Chicago and Alton Railroad Shops on the city’s ...

Before there was a Disneyland Railroad, Walt Disney had his own miniature live steam railroad at his home in Holmby Hills. Disney, of course, did things on a grand scale. As the studio became ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF/BCN) -- The Redwood Valley Railway AKA the steam trains in Tilden Regional Park will reopen on Saturday after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating hours for the ...

A train buff has spent more than five years building a stunning working miniature railway track - in his own back garden. James Ardin, 36, created the 660-yard line, which circles his three-acre plot ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia — For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 350-meter ...