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The entirety of the Northern Delaware Model Railroad Club’s studio space – about 450 square feet -- is wedged into the side of a building in the Stone Mill Office Park on Yorklyn Road, and shares the real estate of the complex with other tenants like chiropractors and doctors and accountants.

From its inconspicuous entrance, it is difficult to imagine what lay ahead for the first-time visitor, but once inside its catacombs, the scale model complexity of a new world opens up, and suddenly and without warning, a visitor is swept up in the memory of childhood, to a time when a model railroad represented the endlessness of one’s young imagination.

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Photos by Jim Coarse