Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Like many children in the 1950s, John H. Scully was fascinated by trains, in his case the Lackawanna Railroad that ran the length of New Jersey, where he grew up, and through Cranberry Lake in Byram Township, where his family had a summer home. Unlike many children, his fascination never wavered, even throughout his adult life. Indeed, the distinguished business executive originally from Metuchen, NJ, spent many years building one of the world’s largest and most meticulously detailed model train sets, a 3,000-square-foot re-creation of that railroad line. Beyond its more than 425 feet of train track, the set is complete with models of New Jersey railway stations, the local coal mine industry, suburban homes, realistic bodies of water, 5,000 miniature native trees and shrubs, 400 little people, a drive-in movie theater, and multiple shops and stores including a grocery store fully stocked right down to individual sausage links. (Info via our friends at the Liberty Science Center. Thank you Jeremy Grossman, Digital Media Manager at LSC.)
lsc.org for more details.
Like many children in the 1950s, John H. Scully was fascinated by trains, in his case the Lackawanna Railroad that ran the length of New Jersey, where he grew up, and through Cranberry Lake in Byram Township, where his family had a summer home. Unlike many children, his fascination never wavered, even throughout his adult life. Indeed, the distinguished business executive originally from Metuchen, NJ, spent many years building one of the world’s largest and most meticulously detailed model train sets, a 3,000-square-foot re-creation of that railroad line. Beyond its more than 425 feet of train track, the set is complete with models of New Jersey railway stations, the local coal mine industry, suburban homes, realistic bodies of water, 5,000 miniature native trees and shrubs, 400 little people, a drive-in movie theater, and multiple shops and stores including a grocery store fully stocked right down to individual sausage links. (Info via our friends at the Liberty Science Center. Thank you Jeremy Grossman, Digital Media Manager at LSC.)
lsc.org for more details.
