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it's our annual Train Show in
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Bakersfield eagerly-awaited
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this show is about model railroading we
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have about 30 vendors and we have about
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15 different layouts a layout is usually
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built from scratch the people who build
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the layouts take a great deal of pride
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in what they do there's just so much of
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it and a lot of it is running all the
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time I already have bought about half of
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it so I'm not quite the shopper I was
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I've been collecting model trains with
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my grandpa since I was two I think he
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has an S gage layout and so I kind of
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just started with little things on there
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and then eventually one Christmas he got
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me an H O scale layout and I've really
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just like fell in love with trains when
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I was growing up my grandparents were in
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Seattle so sometimes especially in the
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winter if we wanted to go visit her to
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go on the train and I loved riding on
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the train that was a lot of fun and it's
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fun to recreate those things that you
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remember my father used to bring me here
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just cuz I love trains like I started
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out watching Thomas the Tank Engine that
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really young age then I got into this
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series this DVD series called I love toy
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trains I just ended up falling in love
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with it I walked I watched that DVD like
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500 times as a kid's been so long since
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then and I was like I think I got to get
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back into this because I enjoyed it so
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much as a kid I had a train set as a kid
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when I got married
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60 years ago I sold it 20 years later I
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bought my set back from the guy I had
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sold it to and it was still in good
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shape I still have it and that sort of I
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sort of fell off a cliff after I got it
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back and just started buying train
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this little car used to be a common core
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it's a a bank Clark and it has a slot in
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the top Bert kid you know put his
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pennies in it and the coins would make
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noise because it was roll around on the
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track wow this one's Japanese bullet
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train and it's modeled after a 1960s and
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70s prototype known as a0 series for the
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Shinkansen line it was one of pioneers
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of bullet train usage in East Asia
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because Japan he was the first to have
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such a bullet train before he got France
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and other countries I've never seen a Z
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scale layout to be honest I get one to
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two hundred and twentieth scale and that
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just blows my mind that people are
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willing to work on that it's just like
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an engines this big just the scale of it
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is extremely satisfying to me and so
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it's something I actually hope to start
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building I love working with
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electricity I love dressing something
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here and something way over there pops
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up and redirects the train it's kind of
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magical you learn everything from
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building to electricity to electronics
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and it's done very well it's staying up
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with the time so you can hook a computer
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up to a train system and run it and you
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can control the trains with your phones
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my career was testing airplanes and I
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think I got my original interest in
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mechanical things and electricity I got
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from playing with trains I think they're
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a very educational toy it's creating all
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these displays are artistic and there's
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painting and there's and there's how you
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construct things to make it look
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realistic and and then the trains just
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move around it and make it make it more
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realistic
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we all love trains that we you know we
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get together we talk dreams and we go to
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one another's house and work on them and
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we work on everybody lay out there's
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just a lot of wisdom and knowledge and
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people who are really willing to help
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you out with stuff I can just just go on
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and one of the groups on the right how
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do I paint a brass locomotive get 300
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comments later with everybody's
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suggestions and knowledge father and son
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it's there's a bonding there and I can
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remember my youth growing up of my dad
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watching me enjoy it it's been a big
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thing in my life and my grandpa it just
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brought us together like it's something
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for us to talk about other than you know
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how are you how school and stuff we get
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to talk about trains and spend time
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together in the train room
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really get that tight bond so it it can
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really bond you together with family
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members
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The Golden Empire Historical & Modeling Society hosted its 27th Annual Model Railroad Show on March 7 & 8, 2020 at the Kern County Fairgrounds. The convention featured dozens of dealer tables, thousands of square feet of operating model train displays, hourly door prizes and a drawing for a train set.
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