
All aboard! The sound of train whistles could be heard coming from deep within McKee Botanical Garden last weekend as train buffs, young and old, pulled into the station to view a special HO scale model train display.
Members of the HO Group comprised of train enthusiasts from Stuart to Palm Bay erected individual models, which included small-scale versions of freight trains, passenger trains and steam engines as they traveled down the mountainside, past a Christmas village and through the countryside.
McKee will host the Fairy and Pirate Festival on April 21.
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Photos by:Gordon Radford
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- Joe Degroot helps with the assembly.
- Tom Salmon
- Frank Volpini assembles track.
- Frank Volpini assembles track.
- Bump-N-Go
- Frank Volpini, Carl Ley, Chris Caldwell, Larry Dreyer, Tom Salmon, Joe DeGroot and Chip Pecere
- Alyse Caldwell
- Marx Train Set
- Lily and Jill Lamaker
- Patrick Lawmaker
- Jill Powers with grandson Stephen Parham
- Joe DeGroot talks trains.
- Martin Alger
- Patrice Donlin with Rhett Kunz