Hi All
I have a story similer to Bill's one.
Here at the H.& S.W. Railway Museum we often have people bring ing aritfacts
and model trains and donate them.
One elderly lady walked in with her daughter one day about four years ago and
told us that her husband a recently passed away
and that he had built a small railroad layout about 5' X 7'. Woould we like to
have it for our museum ?
Even though it was not S scale I felt that it would be a good little layout for
the children to watch and I said yes that I would take it.
Being sight unseen I figured that if I could not use it that the items on it
would be usfull somwere.
Then she put a stipulation on it that she wanted me to promise to yuse it as it
was and not be taking it apart .
Well I said that I would have to have a look at it before I made that promise
and that I would come by her house that afftenoon and have a look at it.
NO NO she said you cant come over to the house until after the funeral next
week.
It turns out that her husband had just died the previous night and she was
there the next morning. Boy was she ever in a rush to get rid of it we thought.
But as it turns out that was not the case. The next week she called and my wife
and I went over to see her. It turns out that her nefew was going to be at the
funeral and he had made it very clear that he wanted the layout for all the
trains and buildings on it but was going to trash the layout itself. This was
upseting to her as her husband had done a very nice job building the scenery
using lots of rock molds in the proses.
So she had come to see us in order to preserve the layout as a whole. At the
funeral she had told her nefew that it was going to the museum.
We have been operating it in one corner of our main exibition hall where it is
down low for the childern and it's just another case of trains helping to make
people normal.
Duane Porter
Building Nova Scotia's Greatest Model railway display ( and it's in S scale )
Halifax & South Western Railway Museum
Lunenburg Nova Scotia Canada
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