… the Toronto Swiss Club decided to bring in a large segmental layout from NYC to be displayed during the International Caravan. They needed someone to keep the trains running and do the required maintenance. That’s where the networking usually begins, someone knows someone who knows someone else who is into trains in this case yours truly. Just so happened that the Swiss National Tourist Office, Toronto was also part of the Swiss Pavillion, one of the staff musing about how nice it would be to have a small display like that - mountains, snow, running trains - in their display window in the T-D Center passage (major traffic to and from the subway). That’s how I landed my first commercial diorama job Theme: Swiss Federal Railway line in the snow covered mountains Dimensions: 96" long, 48" high and 16" deep Automatic point to point of a SBB push-pull consist Waaaaaaaaaaay back during Christmas/NewYears season of '79/'80
It’s amazing all the “stuff” one comes across when sorting and scanning old pictures from way back when!