My wife just reminded me of a true story I told her about that happened about 1990. Since today is our 11th anniversary this was B D or well before Donna.
Roy Hoffman may have been a cohort in this caper. I think there was 5 of us. Back in the days of the South Jersey S Scalers a schedule of play trains was established. Since the regular meetings were BUSINESS meetings it seemed at times trains were almost not discussed so some guys wanted a night out to run trains without the business. Only a few guys had layouts so they got heavy rotation. Let me briefly tell you about Al Schoneberg. Lets just say he was different. He was a regular working class guy that mostly liked American Flyer. Some of me eventually rubbed off because he started to buy some brass too in the end. Al did not mind paying big bucks for some rare A F pieces. But the different thing was NOTHING was allowed to ever be in a box. He would buy it and put it on the layout. After not to long the layout was full and an honest true pile/heap of trains was started. $850.00 for an A F tank car and throw it on the pile! The brass met a worse fate when the sewer pipe broke and dumped doody all over the Big Boy and N&W A. SO- it was Play Trains night at Als. I had not been there for a while so whatever I went. I was not completely sure where Al lived so we met at the nearby school. 5 guys 5 cars - follow Ken Davis he goes to Als a lot. We park, walk down the driveway to the back door. I am 3rd in line. No knocking, the door is not locked Al is expecting us. In the house and down the steps we go. I thought - good Al cleaned up the kitchen for us. I am standing at the top of the steps with 2 people blocking right behind me. I hear the TV on in the living room and someone cough. Ken gets 2/3 of the way down the steps and says where is the layout? I looked down - WHAT? We were in the wrong house! Then we were all trying to quietly get out of this house as FAST as possible. Whosever house it was never saw or heard us. It took at least ½ hour before we laughed about it. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
