Article: As man plans to leave town, he ponders what to do with massive basement train set

Fred Buhrke has been busy tinkering around in his basement for the last few years, constructing a miniature fantasyland that has grown so large it astounds even him.

"I've used up just about every square inch of the place," Buhrke says, looking around the downstairs of his Arlington Heights home. "I gotta be crazy."

Buhrke's subterranean world has three different towns, a mountain range, waterfalls, highways, a farm, a carnival, an industrial park and a pine forest. There are also two cemeteries, assorted homes and saloons, auto shops, a diner, a windmill and a used car lot.

And chugging along throughout this small world are model trains, dozens of trains, from steam locomotives to ...

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