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Sirois served as Old Town's fire chief for many years, and after a hard day's work, he would often spend evenings working on his train set unwinding. But his hobby truly blossomed in full after he retired in 2001: He added to his layout in a basement room at his home, built scale model structures for it, painstakingly repainted and resculpted the landscape, changed the layout to make full use of the space he had. He lowered the ceiling and installed new lighting for the room. There's an elaborate wiring scheme, lights blinking and flashing everywhere, an array of switches and transformers to control movements on the tracks.
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