GALESBURG -- Follow Steve Phillips, 70, into his basement and at first you'll see what you expect, a dark and dingy space. But then he opens a set of double doors, flips on the lights, and you're ...

Nobody has a train set like Judd Wright of Hamburg. His train layout fills his basement-completely. It's powered by twenty transformers. Judd says "When you get old you need bigger toys because you ...

SALT LAKE CITY — SALT LAKE CITY — Pieces of Utah's past are stored in the basement of the Rio Grande Train Station in Salt Lake City. The Utah Divisions of History and Art have amassed a combined ...

APPLETON - Levi Besaw has spent more than a decade going to house shows. For a certain type of person, it can be the best way to experience live music: Somebody (or a group of somebodies) hosts a band ...

Most fathers relegate the basement as home for the washing machine or maybe some garden tools. But self-confessed train geek Jason Shron decided to be a little more ambitious and turned his into an ...

WILDWOOD, Mo. — A two-story house in Wildwood is up for sale, and while on the outside it may look like a traditional three-bedroom house, a massive miniature world hides itself in the basement. The ...

Heavy rains in southwestern Germany have flooded roads and basements, forced train routes to close temporarily and left some residents trapped in their homes. In Zollernalbkreis county in the state of ...

Riding on the rails of nostalgia, a Toronto-area train enthusiast has reconstructed a precise model of a 1970s-era Via passenger coach in his home basement. Jason Shron, a train devotee in Vaughan, ...

Q:A friend from out west couldn’t get over how many Indiana houses have basements. Are they a rarity around the country?A: Basements are as common as potholes in Indiana, but many parts of the country ...