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New York: Random House Inc. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Why do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks those who share his "passion beyond scale" and unearths a wonderfully strange and vibrant culture. Posey's first layout, wired by his mother in the years just after the Second World War, was, as he writes, "a miniature universe that I could operate on my own. Speed and control: I was fascinated both, as well as by the way they were inextricably bound together." Years later, Posey was convinced that building his son a basement layout would be the highest expression of fatherhood. After sixteen years and thousands of hours, this project, the out-growth of chance meetings, unexpected… Read More