The hazy smoke rolls through the smoke box and by the boiler on its journey out the chimney; there’s no need to worry, this is from a model railroad scale version of its real life counterpart. Surrounding the diminutive locomotive is a diorama that brings to life a world of another century and time. Green rolling hills are parallel the tracks as the wind between the peaks and valleys; crystal blue water flowing gently under the truss bridges carrying the trains over the stream.

Imagine that first time you saw the large object of something stashed over in the corner of the living room! You’re dad was smiling with anticipation for you to find out what it was; to which he was greatly rewarded by the joyous screams of his child…He had bought you a model train set and could not wait to help you set it up in the basement.

Many years later, you can still escape to the small world that has been created; all the while small trains make their lonely journeys across vast expanse of “land”.

Whether it is N-Scale, HO Scale or any other scale model train, there is an unending passion to collect these miniature train sets and create worlds apart from the one that is bombarded with texts from the blackberry, unending spam in our email and computers that are constantly crashing and needing patches to keep them turning on.

Thankfully, model railroads do not need the ever changing expanse of knowledge just to turn them on. They are a labor of love that allows you to relax and most importantly feel young and vibrant again.