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I earned $2.50 a week sweeping the floors of my cousin’s bar-
bershop and used my earnings to get the Athearn set out of
layaway.
My first layout, built on the typical 4’ x 8’ sheet of plywood, I
operated throughout high school. After graduating high school
I attended Manchester College. There was no time, or room
for model railroading during my four years in college, so I sold
them, and purchased a stereo system to put in my dorm room.
3: Van Tower has been abandoned and sits forlornly at
the crossing while Norfolk &Western hoppers rumble
over the diamond it once protected.
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4. Lucerne is a typical rural town in Indiana with mini
mart to take care of the few locals’ household needs
and a grain elevator. The brick building houses the
offices for Kent Feeds. The L&IN blocks South Street
as the brakeman connects air hoses. The PRR cast iron
crossbucks give clues to the heritage of the line.
A couple of years after graduating college I began working for
the Plymouth, IN school system as an art teacher, and I redis-
covered the hobby. This time I began building shelf-type lay-
outs and have built that type of layout ever since.
MRH:
What time period have you chosen to model, and what
lead you to this time period?
Tom:
I model the 1980s. I love farm scenes and covered hop-
pers. Jim Six and I go back and forth about boxcars vs. covered
hoppers servicing elevators. Jim is a member of the boxcar
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MRH-May 2014
