This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world.
Up a steep flight of stairs off Crockett’s Loring Avenue, directly across from the C&H Sugar refinery, a wonderland awaits.
In this land, the mountains are made of plaster, the palm trees of plastic, and the people are just over three-quarters of an inch tall. Model trains run between miniature versions of Oakland, California and Sparks, Nevada — the old Southern Pacific mainline — on more than a mile of tracks…