Hello REDJIMMY55: "The Barn", was designed by me (and built by our staff) in the Adirondack Style with slash-wood siding (siding with the rough edge left on) from a now long-gone local sawmill. The Barn used to have windows on each end but "progress" involving constant shop expansion over the years (from 2500 to 8000 sq. ft.) closed them off. But we'd be sealed-in without the front windows. They actually bring the outside in. The locals still call it "The Cathedral of St. Barbara of the Adirondacks". St. Barbara likes it too.
Hello CBQER: That was our first really-huge HO Scale layout, built for Willie Theisen, the Pizza King in 1990. 750 square feet, I think and in a building built just for it. Willie soon moved from Omaha to California, donated the layout, and we moved it to the Omaha Western Heritage Museum. We can always do these things because Dunham Studios layouts are always built to move. That's always a given. And you know what? If you know how, it's simply easier, and cheaper, to do it that way. It resided at the Museum for many years. I never knew where it went after that until I received an e-mail with photo attachments from someone in your group. You've done a great restoration job. Model Railroader Magazine and I traveled back to Omaha in 1991and did an extensive photo shoot for a story that was never published (the then-new MR Editor Andy Sperandio didn't like the way I typed it, if you can believe that). You really ought to get with MR and get the story of the layout's travels covered. You've got a great website, too!
Clarke
