Tuesday, June 1, 2010

DURAND TRAIN DAY, MAY 16, 2010

 

Hank and I spent a delightful Sunday at the annual celebration of trains in Durand, Michigan.  We first visited the beautiful train station there.  It’s a huge building and houses an actual train station, a museum and a giant model railroad exhibit.  The model railroaders have built a duplicate of the station and also a model of the giant roundhouse that used to be there.

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They even had a photo of the old train station in our hometown, Royal Oak, Michigan.

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Outside the station, the live steam model railroaders had an exhibit of their garden-size models. 

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Next, we drove over to the junior high school where all the vendors had set up exhibits and were selling everything an avid model railroader might need. 

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Nice to see that this town still honors their railroading heritage and it was fun to see that there are lots of other “railroad nuts” besides us!

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