A few years ago, our senior center Harman Senior Recreation Center in West Valley City, Utah created a train club room for their members aged 60 years and older. Local model train enthusiasts designed and began working on the room, but the sounds of train whistles were silenced last year when the club leader died.
My husband and I went to the center to find out about joining the train club and were told “you are now the club, enjoy.” We’ve accepted the challenge to continue the train room’s legacy of bringing enjoyment to the center’s members.
The HO scale DCC train room measures 11 feet wide by 15 1/2 feet long. The two helix’s have a diameter of 5 feet each with 5 ½ spirals that raise the two tracks to a 2 foot elevated level for a total of 273 feet of track.
We look forward to posting future pictures as we work on building or completing scenes that depict a Park City ski hill, the Kennecott mine, and other vignettes of everyday life in Utah.
For more information contact the center
