My First Purdue Room (I sold this house and am
currently designing a new Purdue Room).
Video of the G-scale
locomotive in the Purdue
Room
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Knucklegate
The
Boiler Room
By mid-morning Saturday, the same
papers that brimmed with stories of
fans and players taking the Football
Special to Union Station were
printing "Extra" editions to tell of the
wreck and the mounting death toll.
An early Extra told of the efforts of
passengers on the doomed train
heading north to warn the second
chartered train to stop.
Of the 1903 football squad that
rolled out of Lafayette early
Saturday, Oct. 31, 1903, precious
few escaped death or serious injury
in the train wreck that awaited. That
day, 13 members of the football
team died on the tracks. A
fourteenth died in November from
his injuries.
The splintered top of the first
passenger coach rests atop
the coal cars the Football
Special struck at 18th Street in
Indianapolis. That first coach
carried most of the 50-plus
members of the team, as well
as most coaches.
Inspired by the tragedy of Oct. 31,
1903, Memorial Gymnasium was
built with funds donated by the Big
Four Railroad - whose specials
carried the team and fans to
Indianapolis that day - and private
citizens. For 30 years, it was the
home of Boilermaker
Intercollegiate Athletics. Today, it is
the Computer Science Building.
SOURCE:  
purduesports.cstv.com/trads/pur-w
reck.html
The tragedy of 1903
Here I am, enjoying the game from
the SIDELINE!!!
My Interview with the BigTen
Network!
HO-scale Train Layout in progress
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MODEL TRAINS
This is my model HO-scale Sante Fe F3 diesel
locomotive made by Life-Like.  The upper photo is
how the train looks right out of the box.  The lower
photo shows the model after detail painting using
acrylics and dry-brush technique.  This kind of
detailing makes the model look less like a toy and
more like a working locomotive as it was in the 1950's
(Click on photo for larger image)