Fw: Model train question

["Steve Wise" <swise@aoot.com>]

Anyone care to help Mary out?   Email her directly please at
mhquinn@mail.utexas.edu...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Helen Quinn" <mhquinn@mail.utexas.edu>
To: <ttat@aoot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Model train question


> Dear Model Train Enthusiast:
>
> My 46 year-old disabled son (mental retardation, epilepsy, cerebral
> palsy) is enchanted with trains.  For a Christmas present this year I
> want to install a 4' by 8' plywood sheet in his room as the basis of a
> model train set in his room.  I am at a loss, however at what gauge
> train to buy and how to design a layout?   I would like the layout to
> be complex enough to be interesting, but am afraid a really small
> gauge-train would be too difficult for him to manipulate.  Can you give
> me some advice?
>
> Mary Helen Quinn
> 7739 Kiva Drive
> Austin, TX 78749-2919
> (512) 892-7078
>
> mhquinn@mail.utexas.edu
>
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