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When my husband passed in 2008, he left me a basement full of trains and a half-finished layout that made absolutely no sense to me. I spent the first six months just staring at it, wondering why the beautiful 85-foot passenger cars he'd collected kept derailing on certain curves while his little 40 …

Carol Fitzgerald spent 34 years teaching art at a public high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, which is probably why she can't look at a model railroad structure without mentally grading it. She came to the hobby through her late husband's layout, which she inherited in 2008 along with a half-fin …