Saturday, 23 October 2010

Round the mountain

 

Bill Krippner doesn't even pretend it's all for the kids.

The 46-year-old Hillsborough electrical engineer brashly admits that his 20-year-long tinker with model trains is not for his own children.

Neither is it for the dozen children who are lining up at Centre Park in Mangere for a $2 ride on his blue Thomas the Tank Engine-inspired steam engine.

"It was always for me. It was my thing. If you ask the guys here what we do, we say, 'we come here and play trains'."

 

Read the rest here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10682363

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