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Although he has never called it home, Jason Shron has become an expert on a specific area of Brockville.
That expertise has resulted in a recreation of the Brockville Via Rail station and other accompanying buildings along the railway, in his Toronto basement. The miniature Brockville is part of a larger model Shron is building of the Kingston Subdivision line that runs from Montreal to Toronto.
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Try refreshing your browser. A small piece of railway history Back to video This is a close-up view of the model Via Rail station and the building housing Henderson Graphics in 1980, built by Jason Shron in his home. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) jpg, BT
Take a ride on this man’s model train set
He heard you liked trains.
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Some people spent the pandemic writing the next
King Lear, others lamenting the fact that they weren’t. It doesn’t really matter. There are plenty of inspiring pandemic projects to go around, but one of the most striking (and brain-breaking) has to be this model train video created by Jason Shron of the YouTube channel Rapido Trains.
Shron is a devoted train enthusiast and talented model maker. But his model train project re-creating the Canadian VIA rail line connecting Toronto to Montreal is really a treasure only a lot of time (due to COVID-19 lockdowns) and passion (from a lifetime appreciation of the rail) can create. Just look at this video: