They’re closing down the Milwaukee Model Railroad Engineers at Wm. K. Walthers. Here’s the link for the story from the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/39891957.html
I don’t know what’s sadder;the fact that there’s only 2 members left or that they’re getting the boot. The last run is Thursday.
Bob,
This was discussed the other day in the following thread:
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/148430.aspx
Don Z.
This is at least the 3rd thread in the last week on the subject. Ho-hum.
Same type of things happening else where too. Here in Green Bay there’s a club that had a nice sized layout built in an old train depot on the National Rail Road Museum grouns. I can’t remember anything beyond the fact the layout will be taken down from inside the depot. I wish I could remember if it was the clubs idea or the museums.
But still the article said that Walthers needs the space. I know it’s sad to see them have to take it down, but if it’s because Walthers needs the space isn’t that sort of the the ray of hope in this sad story?
Sorry folks, I don’t remember seeing that thread. I appreciate you bring it to my attention Don and again, my apologizes.
I don’t know if the fact that Walthers needs the space is ray of of hope or not. I do know that there are many clubs in the same boat these days. Maybe not for the same reason that this one is being forced to remove itself and its layout, but whatever the reason, the results are the same. There is one less club where folks can see working model railroads. But that is symptomatic of what really ails our eceonomy and our people.
Everyone was once exposed to railroading on practically a daily basis, even in big cities. But I can’t say that is the case anymore. Many people go through there entire lives without ever seeing a rail train anywhere but on the big screen or the TV. So how many are going to be fascinated by it or even be conscious of what railroads do and how they make life in 2009 easier.
As a kid I was always fascinated by the Lionel Train layouts that one could find at a Sears in Macon, Georgia. One also couldn’t go very far without running into railroad tracks with freight trains running on them. I haven’t been back to Macon since 1956, so i don’t know the situation nowadays but I am sure it is much different now than it was then.
I live in New York City now. Sure one can find railroad tracks or take the subway, but one rarely sees freight trains if at all. You get to see the Long Island Railroad and the subways. But these are all passenger runs and if anyo
BTDT[:-^]
There is no reason for people in other cities to care about the fate of an old club in Milwaukee, but perhaps the interesting thing was that it made front page news, with color photo, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Dave Nelson