Hidden off Peace Street inside a no-man’s-land of weeds and gravel, a relic of Raleigh’s steel-rail past still rumbles and clangs like a steam-powered ghost. The turntable for the old Raleigh & Gaston ...

A miniature world revolves around 12-year-old Tristan Eberle in the basement of his grandparents’ Harrison home. His train display fills up half the room, and even then, it’s only just enough space ...

The members of a Hicksville hobbyist club are looking for a few good men, women and teenagers who are at ease fiddling with train controls and know how to keep things chugging along. For the past six ...