The Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, will offer a model train display in the community room from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, Dec. 7 and 14, and from 3 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, and Thursday, Dec. 12.
Lavon Stauffer will return to set up his train display, along with fellow train enthusiast Greg Phillips. When Stauffer was a boy, his father sparked his interest in trains. As Stauffer got older, he began collecting model trains, and he and his father created an HO-scale train layout. Later when his own sons were young, he rekindled his interest by getting the trains out of storage. He started getting newer models. Stauffer and his sons built a layout together, and the collection grew. Today, they have a semi-permanent layout in their basement.
Phillips is a retired astronomy educator at a Lebanon County school. He also ran a model railroad club there for 28 years. Phillips collects Marx trains made by the Louis Marx Co. His trains operate on three-rail O-27 and O-34 scale track. Later in life he developed an interest in smaller HO trains. Before moving to Lititz, Phillips lived in the Myerstown area and had a 12-by-38-foot HO layout in his basement. Phillips is currently constructing a Marx three-rail layout in the basement of his home in Lititz.
The display will be free and open to the public. Additionally, Dec. 7 and 14 will mark the library's Holiday Happening with crafts to make and take and a children's holiday-themed film that will be shown at times throughout the day.
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