“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 ...

On this train line, one car is dedicated to Mark Oles’ family, another is lined with photos of his wife Mary Beth’s family, and a third is dedicated to the couple on their wedding day. Elsewhere, ...

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 ...

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to shunt wagons or chuff around our domain.

COURTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Like many couples, Jim and Joan Bogart find comfort in their backyard garden — from the rosebushes to the hosta plants, to the model train that winds through it.

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 ...