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Commerce Twp, Michigan: World's Largest O-Scale Model Railroad (Closed)

Packed floor-to-ceiling inside an old supermarket. Hundreds of computers operate 30 to 50 trains at a time, in a landscape of 1950s Chicago. Opened in 2005; did not survive the pandemic.

Chi-Town Union Station

Directions:
Chi-Town Union Station. About 30 miles north of Detroit Metro Airport in the village of Union Lake. On the south side of Cooley Lake Rd, three buildings west of Union Lake Rd.
Hours:
Was closed by 2021.
Status:
Closed

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World's Largest O-Scale Model Railroad

I believe this place is closed.

[Marion Christiansen, 04/19/2025]
Chi-Town Union Station

The world's largest O-scale model railroad fills a 10,000-square-foot building floor-to-ceiling with 14,000 feet of track. Hundreds of computers operate 30 to 50 trains at a time. A reproduction of the luxury passenger trains of Chicago and its destinations in the 1950s.

[Seth Lampe, 03/03/2015]

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