Model trains first appeared in the late 19th century as simple ... space efficiency. HO scale's smaller size made it ideal ...

Visitors can also view the operating HO scale model train layout in the second ... a collection of artifacts related to 18th- and 19th- century Pennsylvania German farming culture.

He was successful in amending the planning permission to change the development's layout, but no homes ended ... The Greyhound Inn dated from the 19th Century and was well-regarded for its real ...

Kids and their parents were among the visitors who watched with fascination as trains rolled past on the six scale miles of ...

As a member of the American Female Moral Reform Society (AFMRS), a group dedicated to preventing prostitution in cities in the early and mid-19th century, Prior was uniquely equipped to help women ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Railroads used to crisscross Redstone Arsenal with their whistles and bells cutting through the night air. On Tuesday nights ...

However, large-scale deforestation began in the 19th century, driven by agriculture, industrial logging, mining, railroad expansion, and urban growth. By 1860, about 153 million acres of forest ...

While traveling, I came upon an operating large scale layout that was a circle of track attached to the top of a whiskey barrel planter that had been cut in half. I thought that it would be fun to ...

Varying roadbed heights, painting, weathering, and ballasting are some of the techniques Model Railroader Contributing Editor Pelle Søeborg used to make track look realistic on his former HO scale ...