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Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! By this time, we are all likely familiar with virtual events of one kind or another. Granted, we’re tired of staring at screens, and while we continue to eagerly await in-real-life (IRL) events to resume, "The Year of Zoom" has demonstrated that virtual events do have some advantages over in-person events, such as being able to check out sessions more or less on one’s own schedule and, perhaps most importantly, allowing employees in an organization who may never have been able to attend an event due to trave...

Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re 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 also bills its product...

BOONES MILL — Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re 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...