How about a change of pace!
Frank Titman loved model railroading and everything he did on his layout had a purpose, each section of his layout told a story and Frank loved to tell the stories about his model railroad. (That is why our "Bible" the S Gauge Herald was so successful. Each issue has a story in it, mostly done by Bob Christ.) Today, I was thinking about Frank and his "Monkey's." Seemed that someone gave Frank a bag full of scale monkey's and he just couldn't pass up the opportunity to find a place on his pike to put them. Eventually, Frank placed a panel truck in front of one of his grocery stores and the Monkey keeper was to have a monkey show for the stores customers. But someone backed into the Monkey truck and the monkey's escaped and were running all over the place, of course everyone was trying to catch the monkey's. Now, If you didn't notice this little escapade on the Spiral Hill, Frank would surely point it out and tell you about it with a big smile on face. I found a shot of this scene in my files, but it is not a good one. Next time I'm at Frank's, I'll capture a better one for us. When looking at the attached image, notice all the other stuff going on in the scene, this is why Frank was such a marvelous modeler and why everyone loved to visit his Spiral Hill Railroad. And please remember ... "A wise Monkey, never Monkeys with another Monkey's, Monkey!" Happy "S"miles to Ya, till' we meet again, Bill (Fraley)
