VANDALIA, OH — Vandalia may be known for aviator love, but here, surrounded by trees and tracks on a Tuesday night, it’s trains bringing people together.
The Crossroads Railroad Club, meeting at 304 N. Dixie Dr. and founded in 1978, has long been part of Vandalia history, crafting models far more intricate than children’s sets.
Here, members create whole worlds with unique scales and landscapes, each with their own living personalities. Models shop on windblown streets. Teens swim at the base of a waterfall. Carefully modeled trains run smoothly along the tracks, and down the loop, a series of circuit boards keep the whole operation running…