If you like model trains, you need to head to the Garnett Library. The library has once again filled its display case with historical model trains from the Mike Canavan and Skip Landis collections. Mike’s collection specializes in “N” gauge while Skip’s collection is vintage “O” gauge.
The “O” gauge sets give a glance back to late 30’s and late 60’s with a series of Lionel steam driven trains. This display offers 1930’s-50’s Pennsylvania electric passenger trains. They have vintage K-Line steam switcher with coal cars and a late 40’s Lionel freight train. Also displayed are some of the collector train action accessories from the late 50’s and 60’s.
This years “N” gauge display, features a Kansas City Southern engine with cars representing various midwestern rail lines including an Atchison Topeka Santa Fe caboose and a Lehigh Valley engine with various cars representing Eastern Rail Lines. Also being displayed are pieces of railroad working equipment. Stop by, visit, and perhaps visions of your childhood, or the love of those steam engines sets under the Christmas tree could bring you back in time.
