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the 1893 Empire State Express (which set the world speed record of 112'/^ miles per hour) and the famous 1860 civil war train The General (now lodged in a museum at Chantanooga, TN.)
He goes with his father to the cellar world where 150 years of tiny trains run on miniature hand-laid tracks surrounded by little billboards, animals, and crossing signals that are electronically rigged to actually flash when the trains pass by. A complicated elec
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