Before I drifted back into ventriloquism, I picked up the model railroad bug for a couple of years. While visiting a toy store in Southern California, I spotted an "N" gauge train tableau. I'd never seen such a small electric train size before and I was captivated. Next thing y'know, I'm buying plywood, train engines, track, cars, miniature people and I'm fabricating my own buildings. I built a double-tunnel, a lake and an entire town (which I named Sierra City).
Like many electric train enthusiasts, once the tableau was completed, I stopped playing with it. So I sold the whole thing to a broker who pieced it out to other model railroad nuts.
I had that same obsession years ago about a dollhouse. I'd bought a kit to build one as a Christmas gift for my oldest daughter. Before I knew it I was making multiple trips to the hobby store for miniature furniture and miniature furniture kits, wallpaper with tiny patterns, carpeting and tiny props. Had Christmas not come when it did, I likely would have had a village of dollhouses in my family room!
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