Jacob Libhart's City Streetcar Model Railroad Diorama
photos by Richard Schumacher
text by Venita Lake |
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Jacob Libhart found this model railroad diorama (in very poor condition) in
an antique store in Cuba, Missouri. The layout had no engines, cars or paperwork
and was not running. This 12 year old modeler completely refurbished the diorama,
adding motive power, cars, new track - and rewired it to get it to run. He cleaned, re-glued and repainted parts to restore it to the beautiful scene you see here.
Jacob's interest in model railroading started at age six, and he has been working
on an N scale railroad for the last 2-3 years. He also modeled in HO and O scale before
that. If anyone has any information
concerning the history of this diorama or the original builder, please
send it
to the Gateway Division (info@gatewaynmra.org) and we'll forward that info to Jacob.
These photos were taken at the 2010 Gateway NMRA Train Show. Click each photo for a higher-resolution version.
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