Page 9 - All Scale Rails Magazine Issue 3 July August 2015

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Wisconsin’s

Bits ’n Pieces

Railroad

By Bonnie Domrois

Photos by Kevin Domrois & Bonnie Domrois

Nothing is as idea to form a train club. They wanted to re-
wonderful as flect some of the beauty and mystique of
seeing the sea- Wisconsin, their home state. After returning
sons change. home, Ed and Chuck recruited fellow train
From the ten- aficionado Jim Lorbiecki to join the club and
der pale green help make the WBNPR what it has become

leaves that today: an award winning layout, a representa-
herald the tion of all things Wisconsin, but most impor-
coming of tantly: a true crowd favorite.
Spring to the What makes their layout so unique is the
bright floral many details that the members have painstak-
bouquet that is ingly put into it. The layout is four sides and
Summer; into the deep reds and oranges of each side represents a different season of the
Fall until we find ourselves once again in a year. True to their namesake, the club mem-
shimmering white blanket that is the signa- bers have recreated ‘bits n pieces’ of Wiscon-
ture of Winter, we hold a love/hate relation- sin all over the layout. You can tour the great
ship with each and every one of them. No state of Wisconsin, taking in the sights and
one quite captures the beauty and vastness of highlights throughout the seasons without
each season like the talented members of the having to trade your bathing suit in for ga-
Wisconsin’s Bits ‘n Pieces Railroad. loshes.
The WBNPR was formed in the early There is more to this layout than just the
1990s when Ed Varick and Chuck Gerard, incredible scenery, there is the love of the
while enjoying the scenery of rural Tennessee hobby and a dedication to something greater
and Kentucky via the railroad, came upon the than themselves. To make the first of two

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