Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living.
The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors arenât full size â and yet theyâre way too large to fit on the kind of train set that a child, or a dedicated rail fan of any age, might set up in the basement rec room.
Boyd works at Titan Trains, a small factory tucked away inside a mostly empty industrial building across from the historic Boones Mill train depot, part of a complex that also holds the town government offices.
The business makes one-eighth-scale model locomotives, train cars and tracks. The company also bills its products as âlarge-scale ride-on trains,â because you can in fact ride on them. A Titan Trains locomotive is comparable in size to a soapbox go-kart.