The Montreal Railroad Modelers Association's massive HO layout in downtown Montreal stands to be evicted by their Landlord.
The Landlord is CANADIAN NATIONAL.
Making it's home in a warehouse by the tracks near Central Station for decades, Canadian National now wishes to move the club out for a storage facility, all in the name of making a greater profit on the property.
This layout ranks right up there with being a NATIONAL TREASURE, it is impossible to move the layout without destroying the majority of it, and finding such a cheap location proves to be difficult to impossible.
This public realtions SNAFU is the latest in a string which has the Canadian public mostly giving CN the "Thumbs Down".
You can see the entire story with supplemental video here from CTV''s CFCF News in Montreal;
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local ... ntrealHome
Video of the layout can be seen here on YouTube;
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmfmCanadaCentral
IF this story is proliferated in the community, there's a chance the layout can be spared, best by Canadian National DONATING the building to the Association. It would be a PR coup at a time when CN could really use one, and for a tax write off, it wouldn't really cost CN a thing.
Bullying this club is really a stupid decision to make in a Board Room. Tell your friends.
D/
The Landlord is CANADIAN NATIONAL.
Making it's home in a warehouse by the tracks near Central Station for decades, Canadian National now wishes to move the club out for a storage facility, all in the name of making a greater profit on the property.
This layout ranks right up there with being a NATIONAL TREASURE, it is impossible to move the layout without destroying the majority of it, and finding such a cheap location proves to be difficult to impossible.
This public realtions SNAFU is the latest in a string which has the Canadian public mostly giving CN the "Thumbs Down".
You can see the entire story with supplemental video here from CTV''s CFCF News in Montreal;
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local ... ntrealHome
Video of the layout can be seen here on YouTube;
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmfmCanadaCentral
IF this story is proliferated in the community, there's a chance the layout can be spared, best by Canadian National DONATING the building to the Association. It would be a PR coup at a time when CN could really use one, and for a tax write off, it wouldn't really cost CN a thing.
Bullying this club is really a stupid decision to make in a Board Room. Tell your friends.
D/