If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Growing up, Rob Caves remembers there was always a train set under his family Christmas tree ...

For more than a decade, Rob Caves has invited the public to his Altadena backyard to experience an ever-growing model train universe built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree Lane ...

The holiday tradition of model railroad displays helped get Ray Mueser hooked on the hobby. “My dad had two Lionels he put around the Christmas tree, and he had houses. One time they went out,” Mueser ...