EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest ...

In two rooms, they’ve assembled a 6- by 34-foot N-scale layout of a Tidewater, Virginia railroad depot, and also a 25- by 50-foot HO- and HOn3-scale layout that features Southern California on ...