When they assemble for their two-hour sessions, it's also serious business.
From different walks of life, they share a single passion: model trains. The current roster of 12 ranges in age from 34 to 82. They've been doing this nearly every Tuesday night now for 33 years, with four of the original 10 members still on board. This was, after all, just for fun, an evening with the Chesapeake Trainmasters Club, eight grown men playing with toy trains in a Brock Hall Estates basement. But even if there had been, no lives or cargo would have been lost. 'I should've warned him it was coming.'įortunately, there was no collision. 'All I know is it wasn't kosher,' dispatcher Dick Higgins said sheepishly. It could've been a disaster: The dispatcher gave clearance to a weed-spraying train to go forward when an unscheduled freight was passing through.
