Carl,
What a great Christmas story!
It's what the whole season is all about.
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and wishing you a Happy New Year.
Ron
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From: ourocmr-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourocmr-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carl Heimberger
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 2:12 PM
To: ourocmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourocmr] Ending 2020 on a high note
Many years ago I visited a layout that was being dismantled by Bridge
Masters in Anaheim Hills and I purchased a structure " Matranga Motor
Works". For a few years I placed the structure on my forth modules but at
one show it got dropped and was damaged.
Fast forward to March 2020 and I am standing in line at Home Depot following
the social distancing rules and just started taking to the guy behind me.
Some how we got on the subject of model trains and he said he build a layout
in Anaheim Hill for a guy that got dismantled and he was kind of bummed as
he did not get any of the structure from that layout and he built most of
them. I told him I have one of the building Matranga Motor Works and one of
be locomotives from that layout. He ask if I would be willing to sell it, I
said maybe but not sure which box I have it in.
This last month I started cleaning out a lot of my collection getting ready
to start construction on my garage layout. And what do I find Matranga
Motor Works and the locomotive from MYRR. So a few days before Christmas I
emails Neal letting him know I found it and he could have it. His comment
back to me was "You just made my Christmas". Today he came by and picked
them up, what a great way to end a year that was mostly a bummer then by
reuniting Neil Matranga with something he built over 20 years ago. I gave
the structure and locomotive to him for free, it was the right thing to do.
He is going to see if he can work out a field trip to Fallbrook next year he
has a friend who has a full sized running narrow gauge steam locomotive on
his property along with a bunch of cars.
Happy New year
Carl
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