SANTA CRUZ — The Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad, a model railroad layout first built by Eric Child and Trevor Park around Child’s home about a decade ago, will run its final loop around the ...

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All aboard! Starting this week, the Descanso Railroad train ride is open to riders once again. And model trains winding their way around a new railway garden promise to charm a generation of ...

This story originally was published Dec. 7, 2017. It has been updated with information about the train expansion and a new covered bridge. As the engineer of Frysville Farms’ trains, Vincent Fry plans ...

Some Landis Homes residents are sharing their passion for model railroading by operating a garden railroad in one of the courtyards on the retirement community's campus near Lititz. Luke Bomberger, a ...

POMONA, Calif. -- Locomotive fans, young and old, won't want to miss the Fairplex Garden Railroad, one of the oldest and largest of its kind in North America. "This is a very important year for us," ...

Portland urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River; Garden railways combine model railroads with imaginative outdoor landscapes; Small acts of kindness are an ...

POMONA >> The short ceremony held Wednesday morning at the Fairplex Garden Railroad was just like those held for the laying of a corner stone in any public building. The difference was the building — ...

Like jumbo shrimp or military intelligence, the Fairplex Garden Railroad is a study in contradictions. The beloved LA County Fair attraction is believed to be the oldest and largest such railway in ...