[PRCo] Re: Beyond South Hills Junction

[Fred Schneider]

It occurs to me, Bob, that you have either (1) too much time in retirement to build models or (2) you have run out of space in thy basement. 

I think I could direct you to house up near the turnpike interchange north of Manheim where a man had a novel solution to that age old problem that "collections expand to fill the space allocated for their retention and never stop expanding after they fill the space."  He simply expanded the basement.   He built a three story three or four car garage about a 50 feet away from the house and then tunneled out a long wide passage between the two.    When you are in the basement under the house, you see his collection of Lionel trains ... O, O27 and even some OO from the 1930s.   Then you walk into the subway to the grarage and now you are into the restaurant and bar collection ... when he has company, the bar is active.   And you walk beyond the bar, and suddenly you find yourself in the basement of the garage ... in a model of a drive-in theater filled with his collection of antique / classic cars and in them he keeps his mannequin collection.   Must be nice to have money.

Now that I have planted the seed ... I expect to come back in a few years and see the interurban going through South Hills Tunnel into a second basement under that big front yard where we find a model of Castle Shannon and the coal mine at Washington Junction......


Heee Heee


On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Bill Robb wrote:

> Very nice work,  Bob.   Your modules certainly remind me of Pittsburgh.
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> I could say the purpose of this e-mail is to verify my address book and it
> will perform that as a secondary task.  The real purpose is to show you what
> I've done in my basement.   If you've been here you know the layout room was
> a hodge-podge of modules going in all directions.  It was messy!  I've spent
> a few months revising things and I think it is a much improved organization.
> At least it will be better for me when I haul out the Junction because the
> large resident pieces are now stationary with only one East Penn interface.
> If you want to take a look http://www.dietrichsfam.com/shj/Beyond%20SHJ.htm.
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