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STEVE NIKOLAJEVIC HA!v
for their sleek, streamlined look.
Because contemporary scenery is a problem (“Who wants to build a shopping mall?”), Steve will run the trains through old ghost towns, sidestepping the more conventional approach to model railroading that calls for prototype settings. The upper level will be strictly Wild West, hoop skirts and all.
Model railroading, according to Steve, is on the way out, being rey placed by the easier-to-assemble arid less cumbersome electronic trucking sets. The bigger gauge Lionel trains of a generation ago have now largely become antiques, with Lionel engines selling for as. much as $350.
Steve keeps his old exercise bicycle in the darkest corner of his train room. From this vantage, like a member of an audience sitting in darkness viewing a John Wayne movie, he can slip into a world that is both larger, and smaller, than life.
Steve does not build model railroads because of a strong interest in real trains. Indeed, he has not ridden a train more than once or twice in 35 years. Steve’s trains, which weave past the mountains and box canyons, merely provide the thread
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