At a recent High Wheeler train show at Harper College in Palatine, the majority of the 30 hobbyists' layouts were of larger scale model trains, like HO gauge.

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others ...

What: Train layout that depicts the borough as it looked between the 1920s and 1940s. The HO-scale set-up features more than 1,800 square feet and a new area has an O-gauge railroad.

Over the years, I’ve built and operated HO (1/87th) and N (1/160th) gauge layouts and rolling stock, first on my own, later with my sons. I came to Railway Age in 1992 indirectly because of my ...