Last week I helped an old friend, Dan, get his dad’s Lionel train layout running for one last time. Dan’s dad, David, had built the layout sometime in the 1970s using traditional methods, but had partially disassembled the layout sometime around 1988 and could no longer remember how it went together. In the process of helping, I learned that a Lionel layout doesn’t have to be permanent to be special. A temporary layout can be just as memorable.
One last run
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