SANTA CRUZ — For nearly two decades, the Golden State Toy Train Operators have laid out the tiny tracks for the holiday season at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The model trains, weaving ...

Liam Mortimer gleefully chased the model train around the track. The 3-year-old ran back and forth around the table. Liam is a regular at Old Poway Park mostly for the train rides. But on Saturday ...

The first time we walked into the Sacramento Children’s Museum, my 8-year-old made a beeline for the air tubes while my 10-year-old started assembling a race car from foam pieces. Ten minutes in, they ...

Dave Decker had a big problem, much different than the ones he solves on his day job to make his train run on time. The veteran locomotive engineer was faced with a larger-than-life head of a ...

Ding-ding-ding. Clackety clack. WHOOOOOOT! Noises, first and foremost, are what people remember about trains. Not for nothing is "choo-choo" one of the first words most kids learn to say — somewhere ...