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LIFESTYLES Lee Brice kicks off Round-Up/3C WEEKEND, JUNE 11-12, 2016 Tribe begins Columbia canoe journey/4C How to make NYC lamb kebabs/4C Staff photo by E.J. Harris Ed Glenn holds one of the rulers he had made for his garden railroad business in his workspace at his Boardman home. Model history Boardman train hobbyist recreates logging camp in his living room “They all have a story to tell,” he said. Glenn said most of his earlier models were amp 5 could built on the HO scale, represent any where one foot translates number of historical to roughly 87 feet for logging camps that were the model. The scale for once prevalent in Oregon garden railroads is quite and along the West Coast. a bit larger, with one foot Ed Glenn prefers to equal to about 22.5 feet, think of it nestled in the and 45 millimeters of White Pine District of the space between the tracks. Sumpter Valley, where Working on a larger he spent a summer laying scale has its benefi ts track for the local railroad. for Glenn, who was The model is still a Staff photo by E.J. Harris diagnosed with a work in progress, but Glenn, 75, knows the story Ed Glenn holds his hand over a section of F gauge track familial tremor six or to show scale. seven years ago. The he wants to tell. Logging symptoms cause his camps were once the creations to life. hands to involuntarily shake, though centerpiece of the American timber On his kitchen table rests a short he underwent brain stimulation industry, only to be phased out as stretch of track made out of recycled surgery — implanting electrodes relics of the past. Most camps were tomato cages, where he shows off the portable, moving from place to place fi rst few model cars that will carry the directly into his brain — to keep it under control. Glenn said when he by train as the wood was cut. bright red cabins for Camp 5. does shake, it doesn’t show up as As a model railroad hobbyist, “They move in with the camp and much on garden scale projects. Glenn said he gets to build miniature set up operations for maybe two or In addition, Glenn’s arthritis makes worlds over which he has total three years,” said Glenn, describing it diffi cult for him to get down on his control. He envisions Camp 5, his his fi ctional world. “In that time, the knees to build tracks on the ground. latest project, as the re-creation of a railroad extends farther and farther For Camp 5, he has placed the tracks bygone era with 10 rail cars hauling out. Then it’s time to move again.” up on stilts that allow him to work bunks and cabins for lumberjacks It was Glenn’s father, Harold, who while standing. This, he admits, deep within the forest. introduced him to model railroads does limit the amount of trackside “Not many people remember or when Ed was only 5. Harold was a vegetation he can include. know about the logging industry machinist helper for Union Pacifi c Glenn eventually hopes to have around the turn of the century,” Glenn during World War II, and later he and said. “Camp 5 has been a real place in Ed would work together logging trees more than 100 feet of track looping around his yard, but he scoffs at the a lot of different places.” from the Wallowa-Whitman National idea of ever truly “fi nishing” the The camp is partially inspired by Forest in Baker County. model. Glenn’s own eclectic career, which Glenn was born on a family “A model railroad is never has included stints in both the railroad farm south of Lostine and moved to fi nished,” he said. “It may look pretty and timber business. Glenn has been Boardman in the early 1970s. Earlier neat, but there’s always something to building model trains for 70 years, this year, he and his wife Francis be done.” and last year he took an interest in were given the Pioneer Award at the Glenn is selling limited numbers garden railroads, which led to the idea Boardman Chamber of Commerce of his Camp 5 models, which are for Camp 5. Awards Banquet, recognizing their available on his website at www. Glenn’s living room in Boardman 40-plus year in the community. fn3inc.com. is a craftsman’s paradise with rulers, In that time, Glenn has been an ——— plywood, paint and tools splayed out attorney, winemaker, newspaper Contact George Plaven at on his work tables. He has another editor, duck call guru, city councilor gplaven@eastoregonian.com or paint shop and wood shop around and mayor from 2005-08. Model 541-966-0825. back of his home, where he brings his railroads remain a constant in life. By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian C Staff photo by E.J. Harris Glenn has three N scale locomotives for his garden railroad. Staff photo by E.J. Harris A model of a lumber camp bunkhouse car sits on a track in the home of Ed Glenn of Boardman. Glenn hopes to design a ten-car lumber camp theme railroad in his garden and sell the cars online. OUT OF THE VAULT Pendleton fi remen take work home with them By RENEE STRUTHERS East Oregonian F iremen wasted no time extinguishing a car fi re in July of 1929, but because they weren’t properly dressed to fi ght an evening fi re, they took it back to the station with them instead of risking embarrassment in front of Pendleton crowds. A fi re alarm came in from the call box at the corner of Alta and Garden streets about 9 p.m. on July 15, 1929, and the volunteer crew made haste to the scene. There they found a parked car with the seat cushion blazing merrily away. But because the fi re crew was wearing afternoon attire, instead of more appropriate evening clothing, and the fi remen did not wish to be embarrassed in front of the crowds that usually turned up to watch them work, a plucky fi reman grabbed the fl aming cushion and carried it to the fi rehouse, where the fl ames were quickly doused. When the fi remen took the cushion back to the scene of the fi re, however, the car was gone. Fire Chief W.E. Ringold immedi- ately set about looking for “a slightly scorched cushionless Ford,” while the soggy seat was retired to a pile of rubbish at the city dump. ■ Renee Struthers is the records editor for the East Oreognian. Contact her at rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0818. ODDS & ENDS 10 million bottles of beer on the wall ... VIENNA (AP) — It takes a lot of beers to collect 10 million bottle caps. But Austria’s Hans Heiland didn’t drink them alone. Heiland says that most of them have come from others, many of them by mail, after his passion for collecting beer bottle caps become known. Heiland, from the town of Ybbs, west of Vienna, started his hobby fi ve years ago. State broadcaster ORF said Thursday that his collection now weighs 18 tons. Heiland recently sold the caps to a metal collector for $1,700 and says he will deliver all three truckfulls to the new owner Friday. He says he plans to give the money to a needy family in the region.