{"id":11680,"date":"2012-02-22T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2012-02-22T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:33:08","slug":"on-the-right-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/22\/on-the-right-track\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Right Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my less than flavorful lunch, I finally ended up at what was supposed to be my first destination from today, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum<\/a>. At 28,000 square feet it’s the largest operating model railroad museum in the world. And it’s right here in San Diego. Not much to say other than it simply is a marvel to see all the elaborate and often humorous details that the different clubs put into their layouts. \u00a0It’s a miniature photographer’s delight where one can easily spend an hour just looking for tiny little scenes being played out in miniature.\u00a0There’s even a tiny colonial house with a tiny pool that has a tiny shark in it.\u00a0It’s sometimes hard to fathom the seriousness and state-of-the-art expertise that the volunteers put in to recreating both famous as well as imagined railroad lines of both past and present. The old downtown San Diego Santa Fe station with a Ryan hangar is one of my favorite dioramas. The buildings, cars, planes, plants, trees, street lights, telephone poles, bridges, and people of every kind all have meaning and stories.<\/p>\n

Every time I visit here it reignites my childhood love of models and miniatures.<\/p>\n

( m a n y \u00a0 c h o o \u00a0 c h o o \u00a0 p i c s )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my less than flavorful lunch, I finally ended up at what was supposed to be my first destination from today, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. At 28,000 square feet it’s the largest operating model railroad museum in the world. And it’s right here in San Diego. Not much to say other than it … <\/p>\n

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