Donald Miller, RR impressario and conductor
Looking for a mellow, Sunday alternative to a noisy kids movie or a trip to the mall? Something outside, in the neighborhood and fun.
And free….
How about 7 model railroad lines and 60 cars?
How about the trains crossing 7 rivers as they run over bridges and through the woods while their sounds echo through the garden and their bells and whistles ride on the wind?
Freight trains, work trains and passenger and baggage trains create a world in scale. Trains travel through small town America…a farm with an oink, oink here and a moo, moo there (you get the picture), and a circus with a calliope, clowns and a brand new tent!
Ever see a Swiss mountain cog system railroad chug up the steep grade or Yukon Alaskan White Pass railroad huff and puff it’s way up a hill.
Me neither…But you can…
Head out there…
Sunday, July 12
Fourth Annual Garden RR Show
281 Woodland Road
Highland Park
1:00 – 5:00 P.M.
You should be there!
Lemonade and cookies too will be served (rain or shine) as always on the deck overlooking acres of forested ravines.
Join Don Miller president of the Ravinia Neighbors Association and very avid railroad buff as he opens his “world within a world” to his neighbors.
Over a thousand people have visited this garden railroad which is truly “one of a kind”!
And Sunday is just a day away!!!!
Winnetka, Illinois owned a summer camp in Michigan, Camp Douglas Smith. The North Shore Line provided a charter of several rail cars for the campers from the area to take to Milwaikee to embark on a B & O ferry across Lake Michigan for a few weeks at camp. Took this trip at least once that I can remember.
I guess the camp closed in 1982. I found a link on google to a Ludington Newspaper account. The camp was founded in 1936.
Sounds like it was a good time.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=110&dat=19821110&id=xIUKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bEsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1873,1816571