SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A historic train has pulled into the station at the Everhart museum, but it won\u2019t be picking up any passengers. <\/p>\n
This train, small enough to fit in a shoebox, is part of a miniature display that had found a home in Scranton since 1977, although hasn\u2019t been seen for nearly a decade. <\/p>\n
That train display is the work of Don Clark, a local legend known for his intricate, to-scale models of many of Scranton\u2019s most iconic landmarks. Models that are now on display at the Everhart Museum thanks to their new owner, Chris Munley.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe slowly built out the city, he built the Lackawanna station as we see it there, the station before it was renovated into a hotel. That\u2019s how it was as a railroad station. The Times Building, the Electric City Building, the library, Coopers, City Hall,\u201d said Munley. <\/p>\n
Every city needs to start somewhere, and for Clark that starting point was the Saint Joseph Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the first thing he ever created. It was in memory of his son who was a resident there and passed away,\u201d explained Munley. <\/p>\n
Before the Steamtown Mall, Clark displayed his miniatures around the city, at the Keyser Oak Shopping Center and the Gertrude Hawk building. Viewing the display was free of charge, although Clark accepted donations to the Saint Joseph Center.<\/p>\n
Each of the tiny buildings was crafted by hand with meticulous detail using materials like cardstock and balsam wood.<\/p>\n
Crafted with a level of detail Munley feels would be impossible to replicate. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery one of them is built to scale. They are a perfect representation of the building itself. In some cases, it took him eight, ten, twelve months to build,\u201d said Munley. <\/p>\n
After receiving an offer to purchase the miniature courthouse , Munley says he purchased the entire collection to preserve history and personal nostalgia.<\/p>\n
\u201cScattering it to different collectors all over the place would do a terrible disservice,\u201d said Munley. <\/p>\n
With no prior experience in electrical work or miniature building, Munley spent over 250 hours restoring the miniature city after asking the Everhart to display it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it brought Don back. It really brought Don back into the public view again which he deserves,\u201d said Munley. <\/p>\n
While the display may be temporary, both Munley and those at the museum are hopeful a permeant home for the display can be found in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A historic train has pulled into the station at the Everhart museum, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-79032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}