Aidan Jayaranan, 5, Lawrence, watches a garden scale train set making its rounds Saturday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, building 21.
The fairgrounds was host to the Lawrence Model Railroad Show and Swap Meet on Saturday. Tim Scholl, 67, Kansas City, Mo., a retired Air Force officer, looks through boxes of train parts. Max Gabrielson, 3, watches locomotives roll along the tracks at the Lawrence Model Railroad Club. Like most boys under five, Ryan and Aidan Orth have Thomas & Friends trains. But at Saturday