TDF EP 91 – Trains! Ann Arbor Dork Expedition

The Dork Forest

Jackie Kashian

Comedy

4.8 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2011

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

I’m in Ann Arbor with Fritz Milhaupt, friend of the show. He asked if I’d like to meet his friends who (with him) play trains. They are part of the Operations Road Show project, an offshoot of They’ve been modeling the Wabash Railroad between Layfayette, Indiana and Peru, Indiana between Labor Day and Sept 25th, 1964. Yeah. They are train dorks AMONG train dorks. Yeah. December Donation Button: This month donate here: Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by . Website design by : who has his own Apps are available with bonus content: or My websites are and . Review the show on Feel free to e me. NOTES: Our cast and crew: Jeff Fryman (homeowner) John Young (who did most of the talking, and who did most of the carpentry) Fritz Milhaupt (control systems dork) Bob Milhaupt (not present, wiring and electronics, built the animated signals) Al Robertson (not present, made the long stretch of autumn scenery) Lots of Crackling of Papers… much like in real train playing!! Jeff Fryman (who hosts the railroad, when it's not on the road) was a railroad brakeman in the 60’s Craig Wilson is a guy that made model auto frames to be CARGO I’m agreeing like I know what he’s talking about. I’m learning as he talks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dork Forest.
0:04.7	Jackie and her pals will never bore us.
0:08.3	Shameless confessions about our obsessions will make us laugh and smile.
0:14.7	So let's explore the Dork Forest and Dorked out for a while.
0:22.6	This is Jackie Cation.
0:26.8	I am on a Dork expedition to see some trains.
0:28.9	Welcome to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
0:34.0	I'm here with Fritz and Leslie and a guy named John Young.
0:39.7	This building, I like that there's classical music playing, Fritz. It's very nice.
0:50.7	And there's some people from a distance. Hello. Wow. This is a, this is huge. How many square feet is this room?
0:55.5	What, about 1800, Jeff? About 1800. It's, uh...
0:57.0	So when he built this house, he built this room on purpose and said, go for it.
1:03.3	Have a giant train set up.
1:05.2	Hi, I'm Jackie.
1:06.2	Hi, Jeff.
1:07.0	Nice to meet you.
1:07.5	We put the, uh, put footprint of the layout to the architect.
1:13.2	Okay.
1:13.9	Fair enough.
1:15.0	Hi, I'm Jackie.
1:16.0	John.
1:16.8	John?
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