RUSH, N.Y. — The New York Museum of Transportation hosted members of the Roc City Scale Modelers and the Genesee and Ontario Model-N-Gineers on Sunday.
The groups displayed everything from model planes, trains and ships to space rockets and robots. News10NBC asked a museum organizer how models help us learn about history.
“The big trains go by, and kids like to see that, but they can’t get their hands on it; they can’t really experience it. So if you take a model railroad, you can begin to learn how the wheels work, how the couplings work, and so on, and of course it’s a very creative thing,” said Jim Dierks, with the museum…