Railways: real and model

I have always loved railways, model and real. In 1968 I indulged my passion by building an "o" gauge track in my garden in Wickham, Hampshire, England, and running both steam and battery-electric trains. All lines and points (switches) were made from scratch using brass rail and wood, and the track was set in concrete. It may be still there. Anyway, I can revisit it any time because I put the 8mm cine camera in a truck (wagon) and hauled it round the track. See the first item below.

• Ride the O-gauge train - 1970

• Ottawa Valley Associaled Railroaders - OVAR

• Scranton Steamtown - Pennsylvania - 1999

• Miniatur Wunderland - Hamburg, 2008    See stills.
  4-minute video of the largest model railway in the world.

• Ray Matthey Model Railway in the Empress Kanata Retirement Residence, 170 McGibbon Drive, 2008

Window of Opportunity train songs - playlists from our Ottawa radio show, 2005

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