Olde Style New York

  (Click on any image to make larger)   Between 5th and 6th avenues on 45th street, the world is recreated in miniature. A world perhaps not exactly in the same time plane as ours. Clapboard houses from the late Fifties sit along railroad tracks in crowded glass cases. Along narrow corridors with colorful boxes stacked to the ceiling, the dust from the collapsed buildings of old Europe coat the panzers and Jeeps rumbling through devastated landscapes. For a few dollars part of this world is available to you to take home at The Red Caboose.     Allan Spitz has been guiding customers to the pleasures of train set building and model making since 1973, when he first came to 45th Street to work at one of the four model train stores on the very same block. At the time, it was all about the trains, but as time went on and Allan took over running The Red Caboose in 1994, the business went on to include the military model kits that my younger son is fascinated by. In the age of Amazon, and near