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     COMMENTS: Do the Locomotion

To close the week, CBS' whimsical Steve Hartman offered more whimsy than ever for Assignment America. He found Jim Halverson, a 61-year-old Iowa bachelor, who has revived his inner five-year-old's love for toy trains by building a life-sized half-mile track round his property. While Halverson has spent 20 years constructing small toys on a human scale, Hartman returned the favor by digitally placing himself on a Lionel-sized platform: "Making my ego that small was the hard part," he confessed to anchor Katie Couric.

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