Lakeside - Marblehead, Ohio - Train-O-Rama

If you're in Marblehead, have a half hour to kill, six bucks to blow, and a controlled but steamy hankering for train, model train that is, Train-o-rama is the place for you, your children, your life-partner, and your not so elderly parents. You don't so much need to love model trains to love Train-o-rama, but you need to know they take the train real serious around there (no touchy, touchy). The landscapes -- the roads, houses, villages, figurines, trees, etc., everything that's not a train is far less than professionally built. That's what makes this place a gem and a half, a single room full of crappy landscapes, a bunch of trains, some plastic dinosaurs devouring miniature golfers and a model train wreck or so. [M-Unit, 06/07/2006]

[RA: You make it sound really appealing -- it's on our list for our next Marblehead vacation. Here's an old photo from our road trip files of the inviting Train-O-Rama buillding.]