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VALLEY JUNCTION TRAIN LAYOUT GOES TO CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER
Now that Doug Dubay has retired from the train business that has been his life since the age of thirteen, Dunham Studios is happy to announce the purchase of his terrific O-gauge hi-rail layout by the Cincinnati Museum Center. Check http://www.cincymuseum.org for future display dates. One of our proven premier train exhibits built in 1992, the layout of the Valley Junction Toy Train Museum, with its delightfully charming, toy-look, all O-gauge hi-rail using Lionel track, was commissioned by collector / businessman Doug Dubay for his Valley Junction Train Station and Toy Train Museum (a.k.a. Doug's Train World) in Des Moines, Iowa. Designed by Clarke Dunham, and built in 1991, this first four-season layout created by the artists of Dunham Studios was met with instant enthusiasm by the public and press alike. It was immediately featured as a cover story in the January 1993 CLASSIC TOY TRAINS magazine and by Tom McComas in his TM VIDEO series Great Toy Train Layouts of America (Part V).
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL FOR FULL SIZE PICTURE In Doug's words the layout is the "centerpiece of the museum", approximately 750 square feet with eleven trains, powered by state-of-the-art (DC) electronics, running at four different track levels where viewers can inspect intriguing details with a birds-eye-view . children love the colorful Lifesaver Candy Factory with its arteries of pipes, valves, tanks and a Lifesaver Water Tower. Adults marvel at scenes of animated figures working and playing in a four-season wonderland. Connected by bridges and a ten foot viaduct, over a five foot deep gorge, hundreds of feet of track loop through a landscape of rural and urban Middle-America rich in nostalgia, teeming with action and steeped in spectacular scenery. The layout is filled with details to fascinate boys and girls of all ages. The viewers can watch trains roar over massive concrete arch viaducts, tunnel through huge mountains to zoom past towns and villages or they can peek at minute figures waltzing on pond ice in a deep ravine.
 Last modified on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
