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Model train on display at W.Va. health care facility

PARKERSBURG (AP) — You can hear the train coming and rolling round the bend at a new outdoor display at Ohio Valley Health Care on Nicolette Road.

Construction was recently completed on the 980-square-foot display that includes 220 feet of G gauge track, three trains on three levels, homes, buildings and structures like oil derricks, trestles and tunnels,

The professionally constructed and installed display has yet to have a name, but brings out the oohs and aahs upon first contact.

“I’ve been calling it the Ohio Valley Express, but there’s no official name yet,” said Jay Miller, LNHA, assistant administrator of the facility.

The main purpose of the train exhibit is for the enjoyment of the residents, Miller said. It is relaxing, therapeutic and provides hours of enjoyment for the residents, he said.

Ron Butcher, 69, is among the residents at Ohio Valley Health Care who likes to watch and operate the trains, and do nothing else except wait for the engines to come out of the tunnel. No better way to while away time, he said.

“Just sitting out there, watching the trains go by,” Butcher said.

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