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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 ...

Dec. 4—Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree.

Nothing beats the childhood joy of seeing a choo-choo train display during the holiday season. Especially when that includes boarding a Christmastime caboose brimming with holiday decor, smelling hot ...

The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...