Aberfoyle Junction - 4
Frank, a project manager on the Bruce Nuclear hydro project,
had the chance to buy a Quonset-type hut his firm had been
using as a warehouse. Wayne owned a 14-acre property a
mile south of the barn, still in Aberfoyle, which had room for
such a building. The group made a number of weekend trips
to the site and, with the help of family and friends, disman-
tled the structure.
The pieces were put on pallets and trucked to Wayne’s prop-
erty. Over the next couple of summers, we re-erected the
building, again with the help of family and hobby friends. The
aim was to have the building ready to receive pieces of the lay-
out in November 1982, when our lease at the Antique Market
ended. With the help of friends again, this time some from as
far away as Detroit, the railway was dismantled and the pieces
moved to the new site in one weekend. Now a larger project
could commence.
The big project
Before the railway was moved over, some major prep-work had
been done in the Quonset hut. The vertical H-beams to sup-
port the control tower had been placed in a five-foot-deep pit,
and conduit pipes had been laid in channels in the gravel floor
5. Adding sheets of drywall to the framing in the
Quonset hut, November 1982.
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6. Aberfoyle Jct. Model Railway as it appeared in the
Quonset building. Trains were controlled from the
elevated tower in the center of the room.
MRH-Dec 2014
