Contact information for Mike Leahy - Send e-mail to: Ruth.Leahy@Colorado.edu - Home phone 303 444-8980
Comments: In the fall of 1953, at 10 years of age in Southeast Nebraska, I decided to
take a paper route in order to pay for an American Flyer train set. When I
had earned enough money to buy an inexpensive set, I went to Golds Department
Store in Lincoln and purchased my first real electric train. By the end of
the decade I was more into cars and girls, so the train got put away. For the
next thirty years, I was into my high school teaching & coaching career.
In the early 1990s my oldest son and daughter-in-law were expecting their first
child, so I decided to get my train set out again for the expected grand-
children. Needless to say, I got hooked again! Like in the 1950s, I set up
my train on a table tennis table. However, this did not cut it as an adult.
Therefore in 1997 I decided to build a train room and operating lay-out. I
was teaching at Fairview High School at the time, so I enticed the industrial
arts teacher, Dave Mahan, to help me build a table to fit the room I had in
mind. It is now up and running, but I would still like to expand it in some
way. Time will tell whether I do in fact add to the current set-up.
