NORTH CAPE MAY – Frank Dachowski, 74, loves model trains, always has, always will. That love of miniature locomotives and railroad cars of all sorts is set into full motion for Christmas.
The living room of the Navy veteran’s two-room apartment is shared by two model train towns, one especially erected for Christmas.
This year’s theme “The Good Ole Days, the 60s and 70s” features an array of model buildings, a church with a ringing bell that he found on sale after Halloween in a local pharmacy, a radio station, and service station.
The centerpiece of this tiny Yule town is a wedding-cake-like tower of miniature trains with Santa pulled round and round its top by tiny reindeer.
Over the village flies Santa in an airplane that flips back and forth under two bright lights.
A special rail car bears the name of his children Frank and Tina, pulled by a war train painted in camouflage.
“You know I love my trains,” said Dachowski, smiling. He fell in love with trains in the 1950s. The love affair with trains is nearly as great as his affection for the Phillies baseball team.
His decorated front door resembles a giant wrapped present with the word “Believe” at its center with something almost as iconic as his trains, a model of the Wildwood Boardwalk tramcar.
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