Boones Mill company a titan in the world of model trains
BOONES MILL â Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors arenât full size â and yet theyâre way too large to fit on the kind of train set that a child, or a dedicated rail fan of any age, might set up in the basement rec room. Boyd works at Titan Trains, a small factory tucked away inside a mostly empty industrial building across from the historic Boones Mill train depot, part of a complex that also holds the town government offices. The business makes one-eighth-scale model locomotives, train cars and tracks. The company als...