Mike Leahy Layout

An American Flyer Layout and Collection
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Comments: In the fall of 1953, at 10 years of age in Southeast Nebraska, I decided to take a paper route in order to pay for an American Flyer train set. When I had earned enough money to buy an inexpensive set, I went to Golds Department Store in Lincoln and purchased my first real electric train. By the end of the decade I was more into cars and girls, so the train got put away. For the next thirty years, I was into my high school teaching & coaching career.
In the early 1990s my oldest son and daughter-in-law were expecting their first child, so I decided to get my train set out again for the expected grand- children. Needless to say, I got hooked again! Like in the 1950s, I set up my train on a table tennis table. However, this did not cut it as an adult. Therefore in 1997 I decided to build a train room and operating lay-out. I was teaching at Fairview High School at the time, so I enticed the industrial arts teacher, Dave Mahan, to help me build a table to fit the room I had in mind. It is now up and running, but I would still like to expand it in some way. Time will tell whether I do in fact add to the current set-up.

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