There’s a prototype for anything
The pretend history of my model railroad carefully doesn't talk much about the history, or accuracy, of the Termite part of the Parsons Vale's name, because I got that part of the name from an old Model Railroader article about a model logging railroad that included a (made up, or so I thought) Termite Timber Company. The railroad name has stuck like that for many years, despite occasional attempts to change the name, because Parsons Vale and Termite is a very good sounding railroad name, despite being obviously made up because nobody would ever use the name Termite in the real world.
Today, I built the bears a little Lego model of a Lombard Log Hauler, based on memories of pictures of them at my grandparent's summer camp in Maine (yes, my grandparents, who worked in the woolen mills in New Hampshire until the millowners relocated them to the less labour-friendly environment of the southeast, were well enough off to own a house and a summer camp, even if they had to build the summer camp by themselves.) I'd forgotten the actual name of the Lombard Log Haulers, but I knew that Clark's Trading Post had one, so after finding the name, I started doing image searches because Lombard Log Haulers are the cutest pieces of logging equipment in the world. And on the first page of a google search, there's a image labelled termite-Lombard-etc.
Apparently there is a prototype for anything, so matter how counterintuitive it might be.
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All I’ve got is the webpages for it (and the class A locomotives); this ridiculously large house I live in isn’t really set up for a model railroad, and so we make do with making little switching railroads that the bears and I can play with when we’ve got the energy. My hope is that when they get older, I’ll be able to go back to the intensely frustrating chore of building HO scale catenary that isn’t a complete joke and get a nice little model of Parsons Vale, NH once again.
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Do you have pictures of your model railroad on your website?