Tracking Down the Origins of the Garden Railroad
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin › September 25, 2006
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As they've done since Depression days, model trains chug around a nearly 2-mile track outdoors at the L.A. County Fair. With dozens of scenes - from a Gold Rush mining camp to a sci-fi city - and real trees, the Fairplex Garden Railroad is a backyard hobbyist's dream layout and one of the fair's most charming features.
How did this railroad begin? Readers, I give you Paul Hull.See the full content of this document
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Tracking Down the Origins of the Garden Railroad
Hull, 88, wasn't there at the beginning, but he was there awfully close to the beginning.
I met Hull, a 1936 Pomona High graduate, in May at his class's 70th reunion and was excite...See the full content of this document
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