TORONTO – A Picton man has spent countless hours over two decades to create a small but detailed plastic town with model trains.
The model industrial town features a junkyard, quarry, factories, farmland and even a graveyard.
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Four miniature locomotives make their way around the otherwise motionless town.
Seventy-three-year-old Jack Strachan made all the trees by hand.
The centrepiece of it all however are the trains – including 400 cabooses, which Strachan says could be one of the largest collections in the world.
The entire town was built with N Scale measurement – meaning every train in the display is approximately 1/160th its actual size.
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