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Room 4 in the 1701 Classroom Building - Our New Home!
Our home - the
1701 Classroom Building [look like a church to you? It was before the U took
over...]
Welcome to the club in room 4!
Spring
Break 2003
Most of you knew our room in St Paul was temporary
and would someday be needed for academic work. They are soon moving a new
tenant into the office and we are moving.
But hang on! Our new place is
wonderful! Sure, it may not have the carpeting or that but it sure makes up for
it in size and potential! It is room 4 in 1701 University Ave [located in the
lower level in the "maintenance" area]. It was a kitchen for the Newman Center
when they used the place, now the building is mainly general purpose classrooms
and CSci offices, and room 4 was just storage for the Coffman
rebuilding.
The main area [yes, there are sections to the room!] is
20*30 with two branch areas, one with a stainless steel table/bench and the
other is a walk in closet type thing with shelves, coat racks, and a walk in
freezer! That's right, we are most likely the only rail club in the world with
such a feature! [We doubt it works, it was installed in 1951!]. The whole thing
has a total of roughly 1000 sq. ft.. Sure, there are weird pipes and plenty of
junk and dust to clean but with a hard day's work and some caffeine we can get
it looking sharp!
Summer 03 - It is cleaned up and we're
building the UMTC railroad
To the left is our freezer/closet - the right
is our dishwashing nook.
Coat room, shelves, and to the left, a walk in
freezer!
Another view from the nook on the right of the
freezer/closet area.
A mess now, but soon to be a great rail empire! Well,
someday - but first which way to the dumpster for some of this junk? And does
the dumbwaiter still work? Trains upstairs, the next frontier!
Our
old home - room 125C in the Classroom Office Building in St Paul campus. Just
13*13 feet, a great place to start but way too small when you look at what we
are doing now!
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