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Everything on the 5-by-12-foot layout dates to his childhood, including the Lionel prewar passenger train set his mother bought for his father.

An Oxford couple is among those opening their backyard this weekend to showcase elaborate model railroad layouts.

Likewise, the work required for an L gauge model railroad is of a completely different nature than the work put into an HO scale layout, for example.

Like we said, [Peter]’s usual territory is hiding train layouts in end tables and coffee tables and the like, so it’s nice to see what he can do given different constraints.

Silets, a grandmother of three, is one of the few women in the male-dominated world of high end–very high end–model railroad layout design and construction.