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Post by Country Joe on Feb 29, 2024 14:27:08 GMT
He may not have lost interest in trains but just doesn’t have room for his layout and collection. Florida homes don’t have basements so finding space for trains isn’t easy.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Feb 29, 2024 17:38:56 GMT
He may not have lost interest in trains but just doesn’t have room for his layout and collection. Florida homes don’t have basements so finding space for trains isn’t easy. It also might be as simple as his having accomplished what he wanted to do with trains. IIRC, his magnificent layout was a meticulous recreation/tribute to the RL trains he grew up with, and having achieved his objective so spectacularly, he may have decided just to move on to other challenges, rather than expend the resources needed to recreate or rebuild the layout in a new (and probably custom-built) space (though I have little doubt he had the resources to do so!). I just wonder if he kept *any* of his collection, or created a smaller-scale layout of some sort.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Mar 1, 2024 6:25:28 GMT
It's a shame Tony's layout had to come down. It was so beautifully done and so vast it was hard to take it all in with pictures. Here's a few I took when our former Northern Central HiRailers group made a trip down to see it in 2006.
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