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This Georgetown depot is a real collectors Item McDonald has a owned by Mr Bill McDonald from the old Lionel Iran basement set up of scale track SOO LINE Roger Heed train set up in his house on Park Ave ex tends around his entire bedroom behind his bed and into corners collection which he has been working on for more than a vear includes four brass locomotives and many freight cars Mr Bill McDonalds Lionel train collection was ac cumulated from old castoffs that no one wanted Now the fully operational trains speed through tunnels and across bridges tooting their horns and blasting whistles Notice the operator figures painted in the dispatching station window The Herald Home Newspaper of Hills Second Clan Mall Number llrtnrn Guranteed per Single Copy Price THE HERALD WEDNESDAY JULY 1971 SECOND SECTION Clear The Track For Model Railroading These Trains Keep Along by MOUCKLEY Herald Staff If the thought of a roaring locomotive barrelling down the tracks to the clickclack of the wheels and the scream of the whistle sends electric charger through your body welcome to the group of Georgetown model railroaders who like to don their engineers caps and spend painstaking hours erecting and designing railroad structures and tracks Georgetown many model railroaders are the first to admit that their hobby Is not for children but for serious and dedicated persons willing to spend quite of time and usually money to develop replica railroads With some brass engines that cost as much as and track that costs for an eight Inch stretch it Is clear that model railroading demands as much an In vestment In time as in funds The Georgetown model railroad club which began In rents the third floor of the Hobby and Craft shop on Main St where It is working on a major project of rail design and construction The clubs members each contribute their own special skill to lay track construct and paint plastic or wood structures or manipulate the actual train movement around the yard Its a real technique to putting the whole thing together said John Willis The members who work on the project two nights a week are preparing themselves for a railroad structures contest to be held I September Dean Beech of Pennington Crescent Is Georgetown most prolific model railroader Half way through his ten year building program Mr Beech has literally converted his basement Into a huge railway built on an elevated five foot platform His HO scale track runs over and through mountains past grazing cattle and into Industrial areas where boxcars load and unload merchandise to canneries and warehouses I Just like to build and operate said Mr Beech I try to get everything as close to reality as possible he continued From the various control panels Mr Beech can control the movements of his pieces of equipment as the worlds greatest rail lines of Great Northern Santa Burlington Short Line and Canadian National REAL ARTIST You have to be an architect on artist an engineer and a carpenter all in one said Mr Beech as he pulled out his two caps from a closet Great plans are In store for the Beech model railroad which hopes to have an elevated control panel Bill McDonald of Guelph Street started collecting model trains three years ago when neighbors cast away their old Lionel trains Mr McDonald gathered the Lionel trains which were prototypes in the 1650 and designed a In his basement that stretches and winds for about feet of track From the Llonelville dispatching station station the heavy locomotives pulling the flat cars and Baby Ruth box cars wind through hills and over tressles In an romantic re enactment of the old fashioned steam engine days The whistles blow the lights still flash and the passenger cars still Illuminate for Mr McDonald who considers his model railroad hobby as something to do all the time CHILDHOOD INTEREST Brian Robinson of Chelvin Drive has been in teres ted In trains since he was a youngster For two years he has been working at his own in his basement where he has laid out about 120 feet of scale track Mr Robinson builds his own structures with plaster of parts and papier mache so that his engines can travel through mountains valleys and developed factory areas Mr owns the only transistor power and throttle control la Georgetown With this gadget he can simulate actual stops and starts Jim Colter of Mclntyre Crescent Is probably the finest craftsman of small buildings and houses In Georgetown Mr Colter spent 100 hours to build a station house that has a removoble roof to permit manipulation of windows which slide and doors that open The detail is exacting and the Is precise Mr Colter has also built a signal tower and an engine house and appears tab an easy winner for the structures contest to be run by the Georgetown model railroad club To the operators engineers and builders of model railroads the hobby is con sidered a serious one that provides tremendous pleasure and satisfaction Building them up and tearing them down Is the cycle since you re never latisfied with one layout Mr Colter said The fact that the Georgetown model railroading club Is only one of the hundreds of clubs in the National Model Railroad Association la testimony to this serious hobby popularity Painstaking hours of steady work and exacting designs and plans combine to ensure a precise model train layout that many enthusiasts strive to attain A serious hobby that is not considered children s play Georgetown s model railroaders travel to pur chase equipment meet to discuss Ideas and operate each others valuable train sets Wearing one of his authentic railroad caps Dean Beech of Pennington Cres beams with pride at his superior model railroad collection A member of the Georgetown Model Railroad club Mr Beech devotes his free time to a serious hobby that Is shared by many others In the area Photos By The Herald Train movement ana track switching can be and controlled from home made panels such as his one AH the wiring and electrical connections are done meticulously to create a maze of flashing lights and buzzing sounds Chugging along In grand old style Is this Lionel locomotive on the train lay out belonging McDonald locomotives plenty of freight and box cars