The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, but they weren't among the most powerful at first. That changed with the introduction of the Y6a model.

Model boats and two vintage motorbikes were among the collectors' items and family heirlooms stolen from the home of an ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,' the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist, the ...

Steam Over Spencer: A Live Steam Model Train event is taking place on March 6-8 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Come experience several large operating model train displays featuring scale model locomotives ...

TORRINGTON — Trains chugged along some 200 feet of track plus another 100 feet of “siders” at the Torrington Area Model Railroaders club at an open house and food drive Saturday. For the ...

Volunteer Bryan Luxford, who works as the society's primary model engineer, said he learned to drive model steam engines at the age of eight. "My father was a model engineer, he started building ...

Organizers say there was something for everyone at the bi-annual event, from lifetime train enthusiasts who need engine repairs, to beginners who are looking for advice on how to get into the ...

Model trains and boats among items stolen from home. 4 days ago. Share Save. ... "His passion was collecting everything to do with engineering, model steam trains and engines and motorbikes.

Model train enthusiasts converged Tuesday at Fairview Park to celebrate a new Hank Hornsveld Memorial Trestle, ... Seated atop tiny steam engines and other rail-worthy vehicles, ...

The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, but they weren't among the most powerful at first. That changed with the introduction of the Y6a model.