When The Train Barn closes....

When The Train Barn closes....

When The Train Barn closes in Portage, MI somebody at the Portage Historical Society wants to....move the entire Barn to their historic building site. That is about 4 miles away. The barn is over 100 years old and is a very large building.

There is not enough space on the drive along Austin Lake to transport such a wide structure. Whomever suggested that does not have a sense of volume. The barn can not be lifted anyway since the bottom edge will most likely collapse under the stress of moving.

The Train Barn layout does not actually represent much actually in Portage. There is a model of The Train Barn. There is a crossing and model of the Vicksburg Union Depot at that crossing.

If they are so hot for a huge train layout, the City of Portage should hire a few local companies to design a railroad model based on the real New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad branches that ran from Indiana to Portage to Kalamazoo. There are many builders and contractors that can assemble the model railroad. It has to be O Scale though, preferrably 3-Rail. Hopefully the Portage Historical Society will be purchashing some of the remaining items in stock from Seth Geim at The Train Barn.

Andrew Falconer

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