Bill Young, a St. Helena resident, is a large man; a man of ideas and complexity. Building model railroads and railroad bridges has been his hobby. Three years ago he wanted to challenge his ...

What does a professional singer do in their time off? For most famous people, it involves raising kids, adopting orphans, and collecting cars, among other major pursuits. Then we have people like Rod ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

This story originally was published Dec. 7, 2017. It has been updated with information about the train expansion and a new covered bridge. As the engineer of Frysville Farms’ trains, Vincent Fry plans ...

When Michelle Christensen’s kids were growing up, nearly all their early birthdays were spent riding on the scale model trains at the Mackerel Flats and Goat Hill Junction Railroad in Costa Mesa’s ...

Craig Martyn’s father, Paul, can’t remember a time when his son was not interested in trains. Whether it was wooden Brio trains or highly detailed HO scale models, trains have been a large part of ...

He works in mysterious ways.