That farmhouse is incredible. I will look for it the next time I visit Ready to Roll in Miami, who has what seems to be a million structures on their shelves. It sparked some sentiment and memory and an integral part of my layout is based on sentiment and memories of my times as a child along the PRR, Bessemer, and B&O in western PA near Youngstown, OH.
I was the first grandchild on both mom and dad's side, and I learned from a very early age, that fussin'.acting up, crying, tempers did not work in our family, plus my parents always had train and car toys to occupy me, so I was labelled a "good kid", and very popular - that is when I was very young. Summers meant a few days of adventure on farms, other cities, different homes of uncles, great uncles, aunts, and other relatives inviting me.
That farmhouse is exactly like my Uncle Donald's house in Oniontown, PA, (which is right above the little valley of Hamburg), and I spend a lot of time with my uncle, riding tractors, plowing fields, planting, feeding animals, and livin that farm life. It is with Uncle Donald I learned to ride my first bike. The farmhouse was still standing in 2002 when I went up to visit and acquaint my children with their heritage, but of course Uncle passed on, and I sure didn't know who answered the door when we knocked.
O, BTW, Greenville PA, is the former home of the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR, and it is one train intensive town. A nice classification and storage yard as you enter from Sharon, Pa, a nice refreshment stop on the way to Conneaut Lake, but just outside town there is a RR Museum with about 6 steamers on display. It just didn't get any better.
Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman
