The train and city collection was created by N.C. Hibbett, the town's first mayor in 1973 and later became a city commissioner in 1975. At Mt. Juliet High School, he also served as a teacher and ...

The Train Loft specializes in all things model train, which features more than 2,000 square feet devoted to design layout and various collector's items. J. SINCLAIR PHOTO Facebook ...

In non-model train speak, he explained, think of one scale mile as "if you were a tiny figure on the layout, and you walked 30 miles on the layout." Basically, a lot.

Howard Zane has been working on the railroad for thirty years--building a massive model train set complete with 150 locomotives, thousands of feet of track and more than 6,000 figures.