Can anyone remember a place called the train barn in Iowa?
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Wasn't that place in one of the early TM videos?
The Toy Train Barn
Argyle, Wisconsin
Operating Model Train Layouts
- All Scales -
"Visit A World In Miniature"
How to get there:
W9141 Hwy 81
Argyle, WI 53504
Phone: 608-966-1464
Located 7.5 miles west of Monroe WI on Hwy 81
35 min or so from Iowa/ Illinois border.
They are on Facebook and you can Google their web site
Marty,
Do you mean the toy train museum in Iowa owned by Doug Dubay?? TM did indeed do a video on a layout built by Dunham Studio for Doug. I think it was one of the first layouts they did after Citibank.....
Trainland is a museum in Iowa, maybe thats it.
RD posted:Marty,
Do you mean the toy train museum in Iowa owned by Doug Dubay?? TM did indeed do a video on a layout built by Dunham Studio for Doug. I think it was one of the first layouts they did after Citibank.....
When Des Moines had the big flood, Dougs museum had major flooding and went out of business. Trainland USA is on I 80 near Colfax and run by Red {Leland} Atwood. To my knowledge, its still open
In 1991 I drove cross country and ran into it. It had many small layouts and was very old then. It was in Iowa. Thanks for the help guys.
It sounds like Trainland. Its just north of I-80 a few miles. We stopped there a couple of years ago. It has many small layouts similar to the Edgerton Club.
http://www.trainlandusa.com/menu.html
Pete
I also visited Trainland, located just north of I-80, east of Des Moines, IA, close to a town called Mingo. I was there 6 years ago but it was only 3-rail trains.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen
I thought the "Train BArn" was Seth Geim's place in Michigan???? Or am I incorrect?
Thanks guys.