Gardening and building model railroads have been popular hobbies for ages. But a recent trend combines these two hobbies: garden railroading. Garden railroading can be as simple as a railroad track ...

If you've ever experimented with garden railroading, one of the first hurdles you'll probably encounter is getting reliable connectivity between track sections when using track power. Especially in ...

Don't look now, but is that a locomotive steaming through the lantana? A boxcar rolling past the begonias? More track curling through the thyme? If so, it could well be another backyard depot that ...

When Clair and Joan Shearer opened their Lancaster home for a garden tour several months ago, only a couple of their 300 visitors had ever seen a garden railroad. The century-old European hobby, where ...

“A steam train!” a young boy exclaimed, shaking his hands with wild enthusiasm. “Look at that one!” He sat cross-legged on the ground in the backyard of Alan and Nola Olsen, literally shaking with ...

Doug Connelly took a long look a few years ago when he saw a next-door neighbor winding an old garden hose around the backyard. That garden hose marked the path of his neighbor Frank Stellar’s grand ...