"I think we all have tried to visualize miniaturizing ourselves to get in there."
The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight from one part of the land to another, riding past − or stopping in − small towns and quaint villages that trace the nation.
The railroad lure also harkens back to another time, the long-gone days of youth, when we played with that small toy train set we received for Christmas, a few cheaply made plastic cars and just a handful of pieces of track. But to watch it go. To make it go. Priceless.
No, you can't go back. But you can build on that childhood memory and work the railroad and ride the rails long into adulthood.
That's what the Pensacola Model Railroad Club is all about. With 25 members, the club is made of folks who never lost that love of constructing a miniature world that would take them to and fro.
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