A favorite train display with a lot of history will soon close its doors.
After 26 years, The Old Mauch Chunk Model Train Display in Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., will be packed up on Sunday.
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“We’ve been open year-round for 26-and-a-half years. We opened August 22, 1985,” said Michael Heery, whose family owns the display.
Before that, Heery said, it took one family nearly 50 years to collect the hundreds of trains and miles of track.
Now, however, it’s closing for two reasons.
“To keep it going year-round is becoming increasingly difficult with just a few of us pitching in here and there, wherever we can,” said Heery, who also noted that the Hooven Mercantile Building the display is in is up for sale.
“I think it’s going to be unfortunate because we won’t be able to see it again,” said Gregory Puksar.
“I don’t like that. They ought to keep having it
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