Model Railroading in Madisonville

WKMS | By Chad Lampe

Published March 4, 2013 at 2:03 PM CST

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In the basement of Don Clayton’s Madisonville home a different world exists. The 1800 square foot space is home to hundreds of O-scale model train cars and dozens of engines. A group of men aged 19 to 82 gather weekly in Don’s basement to run their trains, many of them have been doing it for 30 years.

The set up consists of three main lines, numerous track switches and full passenger depot set with homemade stucco and a wrist watch doubling for the clock on the front of the building. The landscape consists of towns folk a scale model rock quarry and mountains with the occasional tunnel .

Hear more about the passion of these men in our audio postcard.

Here's a short video from our night running trains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBqnjETQ4KQ

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Chad Lampe

Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.

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