Duane, Have you posted any photos of "Nova Scotia's Greatest Model Railway?"
I for one would sure like to see some images :) Roy From: David Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:33:31 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} A True Story about a real train store - Bill Lane Nova Scotia? Hmmm. Do I have the name right from a few decades back--Alan Whidden, the guy with a S layout in a schoolbus that looked like a caboose? ----- Original Message ----- From: Duane Porter To: [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:43 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} A True Story about a real train store - Bill Lane 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
