Seen at an auction today: A young boy's dream. Or even the dream of a middle-aged man who spends too much time playing with toys.

I would have been happy with either one of these, and could have taken one home if only there might have been a couple c-notes in my wallet. In my dreams.

Although I did manage to take home a souvenir.

It's the Mad City Model Railroad Show!

The biggest part of it, anyway. There was more to see in a few other rooms, but this is the main floor with the biggest layouts. Other rooms had smaller layouts and vendors galore, but no matter where I went, the floor was packed butts-to-bellybuttons with train nerds.

Mad City Rail Show '07

There were all kinds of model trains on display, from the classic Lionel toy trains ...