along on the rails at Burke Lake Park. The train is 1/3 scale of a full-size train, and a mainstay for park patrons. Park manager Keith O’Connor has witnessed several generations of families at Burke ...

Bob Knoll had a one-track mind. A railroad track, that is. His fascination with trains began in infancy, when his mother put him in his stroller and wheeled him to a bridge in the Bavarian town where ...