(More local history) In the early 1900s, there was a guy named Ernest "Mooney" Warther. When he was five years old, he found a little knife while out tending cows, and he taught himself to carve things out of wood. After the second grade, he quit school and worked at jobs around town and worked in a steel mill. Mooney was a creative and mechanical genius, and as his carving skills improved, he became enamored with the steam engine. He set out to carve the history of trains out of ivory, walnut, ebony, and pearl, and at the age of 68, he finished the last train in the collection. These trains, around 64 of them, are unimaginably ornate with moving parts, and some of them have up to 9,000 parts all to scale. The trains were on display at Grand Central Station in New York for a few years, but most of them have been brought back for the family museum in my town. For a small-town museum, Warther's is surprisingly polished and quite a treat, once or twice. Part of the tour, whi...