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By STELLA DEAN RICHARDS
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Imagine a room filled with miniature objects, some of them moving, and all brightly colored and cheerful.
There is General Custer and his men taking their last stand against a group of Indians whose buckskins are flapping. And there is one Indian in full headdress sending his smoke signal to another on the next hill. Past the dry gulch, and nearer the box canyon, aren’t those miners panning and digging for gold?
But watch out, men! There are Indians on that ridge preparing to descend with tomahawks, lassos and rifles.
“It is a different world there all by itself,” says Castleton’s Steve N kolajevic, creator of this- unusual fantasy. “It is something that is pleasant to look at. You can change it as you want — you can set it up as you want.”
The model trains are just an excuse for a Wild West fantasy that Steve is still creating.
Why has this Yugoslavian native chosen cowboys and Indians from the American West as his principal theme?
“In the 19th century, from the 1860’s on, the Wild West symbolized
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