Adriano Oddi is 5, and he likes that he can control whether his trains “go fast or slow.” The Burke resident was mesmerized by an N gauge model train whirring around a handmade landscape, designed by the Northern Virginia NTRAK model train club to resemble local surroundings. Oddi and his family were inside the life-size caboose in front the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum for its 25th Holiday Train Show, held Dec. 6 and 7.

Model train clubs from around Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland filled the museum with classic N, O, HO, Z and Standard gauge sets dating back to the 1920s. One track even circumscribed the outside of the building itself. The museum will host the Art Guild of Clifton running a train-centric painting workshop for kids on Dec. 14. For more information on events and the museum, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/FFXSRR.