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Trainman Phil Irwin
as little time and money as you wish; and that you don’t need lots of space to be a model railroader.
Phil has enjoyed the hobby and has been at it for a number of years — since 1964 — and his collection bears testimony to that: he has 119 powered locomotives in all gauges and representing train technology from the DeWitt Clinton era at the start of it all (in the 1830’s) to contemporary machines; he has hundreds and hundreds of cars and accessories; and there are at least 200 3/4” people visible on the trains, in the villages, or along the model right-of
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