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one section and you would have to do a lot of switches and
transfers to get to another section.”
BEHIND THE SCENES
The club’s back room is a place where members exchange
ideas. It contains some of the most important elements to
keep the track up to par.
Big jars of scenery material with different grades and colors
for each landscape fill a rack; a workshop table has a variety
of tools for maintaining the locomotives and miles of wire
cables are hung on spools to connect the tracks. There is also
a test bed that checks all the trains before they’re placed on
the tracks.
Visitors rarely see what happens behind the scene to keep
the trains running. They are impressed when they learn that
each vignette may cost upwards of $2,000 to build.
What they do see are multiple railroad lines from Long
Island to Santa Fe with a nod locally to the Tri-Rail. They
also tour intricate dioramas with people farming vegetables,
partiers mingling in the dance hall and workers sweeping up
a machine shop.
Many adults bring their children or grandchildren. The
youngsters really seem to connect with the tiny scale and are
delighted by the train whistles.
“We call that exit sign the wailing wall because once they
get in they do not want to leave, and so they scream when
their parents try and take them out,” says new president
Mark Davia. “The kids grab the top of the sign and say ‘I
don’t want to go!’ ”
Coralie Reich, 4, came to the open house with her grandparents,
Linda and Joe Ameen. She stayed mostly in her
Grandpa Joe’s arms but was occasionally lifted onto a stepladder
so she could peer over the edge to see the little people
in the villages. When asked what she liked best she excitedly
says “When they go really fast!”
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