Oh, let's see....
Coming through the front door into the living room...
There's an 11' built-in cabinet/shelves (wife and me project several years ago) on one wall. Currently among the bric-a-brac are found Sunset 3rd Rail NYC Dreyfus Hudson, ATSF 2-10-2, B&O Q4b Mike, a couple O scale structures/dioramas, a couple HO brass diesels (ATSF & DRGW), an All Nation Purina Chows reefer, and....oh, yes, the most important displays of all!!!...a couple Thomas wooden train engines: Millie and Daisy, in honor of our two Goldens of the same names!
Across the room on top of a buffet is my wife's latest acquisition....the LCT O-gauge Girl's Train plus add-ons....her 'Easter' train, actually (in the seasonal mode, of course!), inspired by the MTH display at York last April.
Across from that on an alcove wall is a beautifully framed/matted print of Fogg's The Great Race, depicting the 1930's Chicago near simultaneous departure and parallel tracks race of the Broadway and 20th Century around the south end of Lake Michigan. It's the perfect complement to the grand piano. Well, at least we think so!
Next adjacent room...computer central. And on the top shelf above is my wife's weakness from another MTH/York...the LCT 400E Blue Comet engine/tender. On the shelf just below are three HO structures, the center one of which is a scratch-built Santa Fe station from a 1955 Model Railroader article that Dad and I built over a period of 55 years. Yep, that's right,.......55 years! (Another story, another time.)
Down the hall in the first spare bedroom are several shelves on the walls with various HO engine/car/structure models, Strombecker wooden train models, railroadiana, a Sylvan O scale tugboat model (Scuphee), and most prized of all, Dad's 366W standard gauge set....that started my lifelong obsession!
In the next spare bedroom is an enclosed cabinet with three O scale structures/dioramas...Saulena's Tavern, Majestic Hardware, and BV's Freight Station.
Then there's the door to the basement! It's rather ho-hum, rather innocuous,...just another door. But visitors enter at their own risk to the psyche.
Yeah, well, there's not a lot left to the imagination as to what we're all about when visitors come a-callin'.
And I didn't even mention the reading materials scattered about on horizontal surfaces in rooms hither and yon....including the loo!
Tasteful? Stylish? BH&G photo-competitive? .....maybe not to an interior decorator.
But to us?......
Happy, happy, happy!!
KD
