Roanoke’s railroad “Glory Days” may be well in the past. But one aspect of the railroad community is alive and well.

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.

I understood the Title to mean that this is the smallest N scale layout, not the smallest layout. As someone who has a box of N scale track, railcars, and a couple of locomotives sitting unused ...

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TRAIN SHOW. William M. Gouse Jr. VFW Post 3211, 320 S. Broadway, Hicksville, 516-931-7843, trainville.com.Two halls of operating model train layouts (O, HO, N, Z, On30) All proceeds benefit Post ...

Started in 1999, the current layout contains over 365 feet of total HO-scale track — that's "half-O scale," or 1 foot represented by ¼ inch, and it is the most popular model railway in the U.S.

Groups of adults would operate HO (one half scale of O gauge) railroad layouts. Each operator would have a pre-determined task, such as moving a train’s cargo from point A to point B.

Involved in the layout will be two areas of HO scale buildings. One would be a town and the other a “coal town,” similar to one where the mother of Treiber’s wife Georgia was raised.

Train operators open their homes so railroad fans can see these individually styled G-scale train layouts. Tour sites are in Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Sun Lakes and Phoenix.

The Veterans Museum Broomfield, 12 Garden Center off Midway Boulevard, is hosting a model railroad exhibit installed by the Colorado Toy Train Foundation through Dec. 22. The large, modular three-rail ...