Fred, You do have a point.
Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Travelling Man @ Tom: for what it's worth, it appears to me that admitting to being a railroad enthusiast still meets with much the same reception today in many circles... -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Baker <[email protected]> To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 11:12 am Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Travelling Man Steve, Thank you for that bit of information. One additional tidbit of memory. I had a friend whose mother was the head nurse at the Wayzata hospital. The Wayzata hospital was, at least it so appeared to me, a very large old house. I do not think it was originally a hospital. Anyway, Ron Lauer occasionally invited me over to spend the day with him and his brother, Dick. Because his mother was the head nurse and sometimes had the Saturday shift, we often ate lunch at the hospital. Just in a nick of time, too! Just after lunch a Great Northern freight roared through Wayzata, and--blieve me--it rattled the windows of that old hospital like the place was haunted by the souls of those who had left this world there. The beauty of it was back in the years from 1955 through 1957, one of GN's powerful O-8 Mikes powered the freight. That was a sight to see and remember forever. Those O-8 MIkes were at least as powerful as an NKP Berkshire and also, like the Berks, had 69-inch driv ers. The O-8s I saw were the oil burning variety. I liked my friend, Ron, but the privilege of seeing those O-8s tear through Wayzata made me like him even more. Ron, of course, never understood what was so exciting about an old train. Back in those days, admitting to liking trains was a taste better kept in the closet. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> [[email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>] on behalf of Stephen [[email protected]<mailto:doylesteve19%40yahoo.com>] Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:05 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: {S-Scale List} Travelling Man --- In S-Scale@yahoogroups .com, Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > <snip> Steve, I do not know exactly where the mixed diverged from the GN > main. Would it have passed through Wayzata. Tom, the Hutch Local passed along Wayzata Bay, ruining the view of the shop owners and bathers, past the historic Depot which Ken referenced (built by James J. Hill as a peace offering for ticking off the local folks), crossed Ferndale Road and then diverged to the left about 50 yards beyond. It had tiny station (nothing more than crude coverings usually) stops at various locations on the way out to the Lafayette Hotel, the hotel he built and which entertained Presidents and kings in its hey-days in the 1880s. We had a station stop between our house and our next-door neighbors. No sign left of this Arcola Station. It was the last stop before the hotel, which burned to the grounds, suspiciously, the day after Hill removed all the crystal and china at the end of a season. It then became the Lafayette Club, a gentleman's sports and card club, and eventually the Lafayette Golf Club. If you use Google Earth or Bing Maps, you can clearly see the right of way leaving Wayzata and going all the way out to Hutchinson. Steve ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
