I met Rob Caves three weeks ago as a guy who had built a giant toy train layout with his buddies behind his Altadena home on Christmas Tree Lane. The model train club invites the public into their ...

For more than a decade, Caves has invited the public to experience this ever-growing labor of love built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree Lane Model Railroad Society.

Model train collecting is a hobby that families have shared together over the generations — dating back to the time the popular model train manufacturer, Lionel Corporation, started producing them in ...