Sunday. December 2. 1990 - North Shore News - 44

LIFESTYLES

Railroader’s dilemma

Ken Davis
has to move,
but what does
he do with his
labor of love?
“YOU CAN'T take it with
you” is a saying with a bit-

lersweet meaning for Ken
Davis.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

Like many retired people, Davis
and his wife, Dorothy, plan to
move out of their home and into a
condominium.

But the model railroad that
Davis has been working on for
more than 30 years will have to
stay.

“The railroad is a problem
because it Occupies a room 22 feet
by 16 feet and it’s built-in. so it
can’t be moved,"* says Davis.

When Davis built his Canyon
Heights home 34 years age, he put
in bis “train room’ which he
planned to fill with a railroad.

And fill the room he has.

Davis has constructed an clabo-
rate railroad complete with 10
locomotives and numerous freight
ears, all run on electricity. An
amateur oil painter, he has : " a
painted the scenery that serves as a ae a 4) coat TT OS LOB.
the backdrop for the railroad. The : . ™ _ . "NEWS photo Stuart Davis
rugged terrain on which the KEN DAVIS shows the model railroad he has been building in his Canyon Heights home for more than 30 years. The detailed tayout is
railroad is built includes a built to scale
railroad-side village, a tunnel, .
trees and shrubs. that the average price for a brass photographs of scenery and struc-

Model railroading is serious locomotive is $500. tures he wants to model.
business — or at least a serious A member of the worldwide The goal, he says, is to be as

hobby, Davis explains. National Model Railroaders realistic as possible.
“This is not toy stuff. Its not Association and the affiliated To that end the railroad is built
for children,*’ Davis says, adding North Shore club, Davis takes See Model pase 43

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