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A California appeals court has handed a tactical setback to the model train club that for more than three years has battled the Napa Valley Expo to keep its elaborate miniature railroad exhibition at the downtown fairground, the groupâs home base for more than half a century. Judge Mark B. Simons of the 1st District Court of Appeal ruled last month that the Napa Valley Model Railroad Historical Society can no longer claim to be staving off eviction by the state-operated Expo, despite the fair authorityâs termination of the groupâs lease at the end of 2017. In a Jan. 20 decision, Simons ruled that an abortive reconciliation in July 2018 â when the model train society paid one monthâs rent to the Expo before refusing further payments at a much higher rate than before â renders meaningless its push to reverse the fairgroundâs eviction of the club the year before. ....