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Virginia company a titan in the world of model trains

Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re 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 “large-scale ride-on trains,” because you can in fact ride on them. A Titan Trains locomotive is comparable in size to a soapbox go-kart.

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Boones Mill company a titan in the world of model trains

BOONES MILL — Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re 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 “large-scale ride-on trains,” because you can in fact ride on them. A Titan Trains locomotive is comparable in size to a soapbox go-kart.

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