I lived in Hammond in the late 90's up till 2005 and used to go there often and bought a fair amount of trains there. In addition to the trains, it was an antique store and he seemed to have collected a bunch of large store and resturaunt signs. I think he had a SHoney's Bog Boy there in the yard. And yes, I did get to see that layout run. If memory serves, he had done a lot of work on it in the early 2000's to get it to the final state. They were super nice, the kind of place you could walk in and honestly just hang out and BS for as long as you wanted and they were happy to talk about anything. I always wanted to go back up there but sadly missed out obviously. Very sad to know that it is being bulldozed now. I do wish I had some pictures but unfortunately I do not.
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