Structures help set the stage for a layout’s look and practicality. There are no bounds to the variety of buildings a modeler ...

Photos of the layout show dozens of highly detailed ... who once had a hit with a cover of Tom Waits' song Downtown Train, put the model city together in an attic at his home in Los Angeles.

YPSILANTI, MI - There is a city that bustles in Jack Stankrauff ... like weathering, layout and vegetation. The model train display was finally completed in 2015, Stankrauff said.