A story we shared in October has taken on a life of its own — literally — after a 92-year-old Maine man’s model train village went viral and found a new home.

For years, Dean Walker poured his passion into the model train layout above his garage — a hand-built village filled with tiny details and personal touches. When sister station WMTW first met him, he said he was looking for someone who would appreciate the layout as much as he did, someone who could carry it forward when the time felt right. Advertisement

"And that was my hope when we started all this. I would find somebody that would take the entire layout. I wasn't willing to really split it up. That was my worst desire, was to sell it, piece by piece," Walker said.

After the story drew hundreds of thousands of views online,

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