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Save the Hobby: Support a Veteran's Trains

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I've been showing my trains online for years. With all the running, they are wearing out. Need to replace the engines, update the scenery, and repair rolling stock (train cars). I'm retired and a veteran of the Navy. The layout is HO scale, and since COVID, the price of engines and other equipment has gone up. With the amount of running and hours I put on the layout, streaming it through 3 cameras, the hours stack up over the years. I've lost 4 engines just this year. Need parts to maintain train cars and supplies to refresh the scenery. I've almost had 100,000 views since November 2020.

I'm trying to save the layout so others can see my layout and hope some will be interested enough that they will want to pick up the hobby of model railroading. Save the layout and save the hobby. Thank you!
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GarysTrains Live
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Louisville, KY

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