Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich ...

The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...

The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

Dan Harrison’s career as an employee of a real railroad lasted less than a week, but now he’s the CEO of his own large railroad— right in his back yard Harrison’s railroad empire at his 115 Kate ...