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The family and I made a trip to Greenville, SC about a month ago, and one of the things we did was visit the Miniature World of Trains Museum.
If I remember correctly, we were there on the one year anniversary of their HO scale layout. Here are some pics of that layout:
Greenville/Spartanburg in the 1950s
Sherwin Williams and Western Auto
The Spencer, NC roundhouse and back shop
Saluda grade, the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States, now out of service
A zombie!
Various train action
And quite surprising to me, they weren't "above" (sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious!) having some Tyco on the layout for the whole world to see!
A few select items from the display cases
And a pretty cool large scale steamer
And here is something I've never seen before at a model train museum, and I think it's a great idea - scavenger hunts!
To really engage the general public, many of whom I'm sure are not familiar with the hobby, the museum provides three different lists of items for the guests to search for on the layout. This increases the museum's "fun factor" and encourages the guests to get much more involved with the layout than they would otherwise. (This explains the zombie's presence!) This seemed to be very well received, because I saw quite a few people intently searching for the various items.
Here's one of the scavenger hunts. As you can see, the museum offers a prize, too!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 08:19:28 AM
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* That was a nice tour of the Museum layout. I like the use of the Walters cornerstone brick corner building as the Davenport clothing shop.
* More interesting to me is the park across the street, and that old fashion wooden bandstand. I have seen the kit and should have gotten it when it price was about $25. Now for me it skyrocketed into the realms of imposable pricing.
* Another diorama Ide like to make for my 1885 layout is a Old fashion riverfront picnic park between the mainline and the Lehigh River. On a Island close to the shore giving separation from the sounds of the trains. With Bandstand and a small grassy area along side it for a family to spread out their picnic blanket, sit and enjoy the music, and view the well dressed couples dancing under to shaded canopy of the large bandstand. A Ferris wheel providing a place for these couples to ride to the heights above the river, taking their turn stopping privately at the very top for that moment alone together. Walkways winding through trees and along the river, with small bridges going over bubbling brooks, where the young couples can slowly stroll, arm in arm in their finest as younger teenagers discreetly follow them, giggling, to see just what it is they might do. The park would stretch along the river front with the flowing water providing a cool and comfortable natural setting .
* Anyone who has followed my writing here and at other sites would know that It is Laury's Station I have described. It was a real place about 2 miles up river from Allentown. The railroad is gone. The park too. No trespassing signs now block you access to Laury's Island. The only thing that remains is 2 buildings east of the station location. One the brick home of David Laury. The other a brick twin townhouse with the lower floor of one the original Laury store. The very quant British style station is long gone. All else that remains is the ruins of the old Mill that David owned and ran. A rail trail now exists where the main line of the Lehigh Valley was. A old LVRR concrete phone both can be found north of the station along the trail. That and many telephone poles used by the railroad for communication. It is a nice place to walk or bike ride as photos I have put on line do show. I'll find a link to them and put it here also.
toptrain
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 11:09:39 AM
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| Some layouts open to public have scavenger hunts
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 4:44:27 PM
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Frank, that was a nice tour of Laury's Station too! While I was reading, I was there! And it made me think of scenes from "The Music Man."
And I'm glad to hear other layouts have scavenger hunts, although this is the first one I have seen.
Glenn
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 6:38:56 PM
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I actually made a scavenger hunt thingie for one of my model railroad projects a while back, believe it or not. Very cool layout. 
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 7:42:35 PM
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When I had my layout "on tour", we would print off scavenger hunt handouts for the kids. It was fascinating to see the ones who weren't all that interested in trains suddenly light up with great interest when "on the hunt" for the little details that had to be searched for!
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 30 2015 : 12:39:53 AM
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That was great. I was wondering if they'd let me run
my Tyco on that thing, as a deathbed wish or something.
Guess they beat us to the punch.
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Posted - January 15 2021 : 8:25:04 PM
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quote:The family and I made a trip to Greenville, SC about a month ago, and one of the things we did was visit the Miniature World of Trains Museum.
If I remember correctly, we were there on the one year anniversary of their HO scale layout. Here are some pics of that layout:
Greenville/Spartanburg in the 1950s
Sherwin Williams and Western Auto
The Spencer, NC roundhouse and back shop
Saluda grade, the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States, now out of service
A zombie!
Various train action
And quite surprising to me, they weren't "above" (sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious!) having some Tyco on the layout for the whole world to see!
A few select items from the display cases
And a pretty cool large scale steamer
And here is something I've never seen before at a model train museum, and I think it's a great idea - scavenger hunts!
To really engage the general public, many of whom I'm sure are not familiar with the hobby, the museum provides three different lists of items for the guests to search for on the layout. This increases the museum's "fun factor" and encourages the guests to get much more involved with the layout than they would otherwise. (This explains the zombie's presence!) This seemed to be very well received, because I saw quite a few people intently searching for the various items.
Here's one of the scavenger hunts. As you can see, the museum offers a prize, too!
Originally posted by gmoney - April 28 2015 : 02:06:55 AM
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Nice place to visit.
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Posted - January 15 2021 : 8:34:28 PM
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It appears to be closed. Might relocate nearby.
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 Posted - January 15 2021 : 8:43:11 PM
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Interesting layout.
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Posted - January 15 2021 : 10:24:26 PM
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| I cannot imagine trying to move any of this.
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Posted - August 12 2023 : 4:28:52 PM
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Looks like they are expanding the layouts. Open in 2024 perhaps.
http://www.miniatureworldoftrains.com/
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Posted - August 12 2023 : 4:39:37 PM
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They plan to copy some ideas from other layouts around the world.
Very ambitious plan.
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