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Came across this old photo today of our FIRST set-up at a local nursing home with our new modular layout. We used ScaleTrax which looked pretty realistic and had wide curves so we could run scale sized equipment. One of the lady residents came over to my wife at the time and said "See that train over there - That's the Santa Fe Super Chief. I rode it from Chicago to California when I was a girl". My wife was impressed! We had a lot of good stories from those visits. The most memorable was a man in a wheelchair who sat by the tracks with his face beaming like a little boy - very excited. A nurse took me aside and said "That man has been here 7 months and this is the first time I've seen him smile!" I get choked up even now when I relate that story - what memories did we unlock in him that brought such joy?
That's me to the left with Professor Dave Alsop (center) and Ed Rynning (right) in photo. Both of them have passed and are missed in the club. This first outing was over 10 years ago now! We really generated some good will with these set-ups around our area but as we've gotten older it has become impractical to manage them anymore due to us being older and less able to physically handle the work!
