From a local exhibit. A handful of retired railwaymen bid a few thousand dollars on a storage auction, only to find several tens of thousands of dollars worth of models and equipment inside. So they decided to turn it into a non profit museum.
Fantastic, do they have a link ?
This is a pretty amazing layout. Good to see that it was rescued and turned into a local attraction.
Modelling is a bit like our photography, that seems to have lost a lot of practitioners. My sons generation have never had the pleasure of building Airfix kits and such. A lot of manual skills are disappearing.
Building cranes with Meccano, is probably the reason I drifted into Engineering, after a false start, after leaving school. My passion is structural steelwork; the big boys Meccano.