From the choo-choo that goes around the Christmas tree to fanciful displays and seasonal train rides like The Polar Express, trains have long been associated with the holidays. For the ultimate ...

For months now, Disney fans have not been able to visit any of their favorite state-side theme parks. But that hasn’t stopped their love of all things related to the Happiest Places on Earth. And ...

A miniature circus joins model trains at the Central Ohio Model Railroad Club’s annual holiday open house in Worthington this weekend. The Fleck’s Family Circus miniatures were created in the 1940s ...

Model villages have been delighting visitors for decades with their detailed replicas of the world's greatest landmarks. We've rounded up some of the best miniature villages around the globe, ...

Nicolas Temese didn't use 3D printing. He built the entire model of the 1401 computer system from scratch, including teeny tiny punchcards. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

Miniature Wonderland in Hamburg, Germany, is the world's largest railway model theme park, and is known for reproducing not only the railway but also the scenery of the world on the HO scale (1/87 ...

Jeroen "Jevries" de Vries has had a longstanding obsession with American cars, something that was hard to find in the Netherlands where he was born. He loved the chrome, admired the body styles, and ...

From 1790 until 1870, U.S. patent law required inventors to submit actual physical models of their novel machines along with their drawings and descriptions. These miniature testaments to innovation — ...