Eighteen homes and one hospital are on the map for the spring open-house tour of the Arizona Big Train Operators, Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30. Times are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days. Train ...

Garden scale, or G-scale, trains have been around for more than a century since their beginnings in Europe. After being eclipsed by smaller trains after World War II, the big trains (a locomotive is ...