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Buffet with Salad Bar. Only $9.95. Sandwiches, Fish and Steaks Open to the Public Coffee or Tea with special. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Brodie Cox and Barry Cox, Personal Representa- tive, convey to Samantha J. Crowe and John D. Jones, PR, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Jule Jallos Randolph conveys to Jennifer R. Johnson, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Aleeta R. Gray conveys to Aleeta R. Gray, Scott W. Krieg, Sharon R. A xsom and Margie K. Falls, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. William A. Bolin and Anna Jean Bolin convey to Stel- la Jones Corporation, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Jeremiah J. Denton, Personal Representative and Rick J. Denton Estate convey to Jeremiah J. Denton, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Donnie Oxendine conveys to William M. Hess, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Charles Kent Evans and Sara Lisa Evans convey to Jordan E. Hoffman and Justin M. Bromm, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Rhett A. Hartke and Amanda D. Hartke convey to Kevin D. Ice and Pamela K. Ice, real estate as record- ed in Pike County. Marlene A. King conveys to Marlene A. King, Irre- vocable Trust, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Ruth H. Landreth and Julia E. Mahoney, POA, con- veys to Colin Patrick Mahoney, real estate as record- ed in Pike County. By Andy Heuring Trains weren't really a part of Roy Stilwell's life two years ago. He didn't work for the railroad or have a train ride that sparked a passion for trains. Stilwell, pastor of the Otwell Wesleyan Church, said he rode on a train back when he was in the Army. It didn't real- ly inspire a longing for collecting trains or taking train rides. But last year, Stilwell, a former con- struction superintendent who has more drills than most people have cousins, even distant cousins includ- ed, started collecting model trains. To say he fell hook, line and sinker over trains would probably be an un- derstatement. In just a year of collect- ing HO gauge trains, Stilwell already is contemplating how to increase the space in his garage to allow more room for his train sets. He currently has 12 diesel engines, two steam engines and three more on the way, including one on its way from Great Britain, 11 transformers to run his train sets and approaching 500 feet of HO track woven into a least four lev- els on three different platforms. "I can't just sit on the couch and watch Phil," said Stilwell. He worked construction for more than 30 years, mostly on government construction projects across the west coast, everything from postal build- ings to military buildings from El Pa- so, Texas to northern California. A native of the Pikeville area, he graduated from Stendal High School before going to the 101st Airborne. Following the military, he spent much of his life in California working con- struction. He and his wife, Margie, a native of Vincennes, moved back to Pike Coun- ty in 2000. An ordained Baptist min- ster for more than 50 years, Stilwell began pastoring at the Otwell Wesley- an Church. While there, he has put his carpenter skills to work, helping with the construction of their Fellowship Hall and other projects. "I'll be 80 in March. People in my church came to me and said, 'Its time for you to put up your tools,'" said Stilwell. "I've got to keep going," he said. So he started putting his energies in- to model trains to pass his time. It fit well with his construction skills. He has more than 15 separate train sets interwoven onto the three different platforms. His layouts are intricate enough to occasionally confuse a con- struction superintendent. With nine different transformer controls, some which control two or three different trains from the same controller, it can be confusing. Stilwell said he spends about 30 hours a week in his garage fiddling with his train collection. He said keep- ing about 100 HO gauge train cars on the track, and running and keeping all 15 sets for tracks working proper- ly takes constant maintenance, espe- cially if a car or section of cars derails in a hard-to-reach place in the middle of the set. Stilwell will often have to get down on his hands and knees and crawl into the middle of the set up and stand up in an opening left just for such occasions. There are enough complexities in the trains to keep even a busy body like Stilwell busy. An example of that is the wheel sets for various cars often aren't compatible with each other. He has small bowls filled with both types of wheel sets. He admitted his trains, which when several are running resemble worms writhing through the set ups, is an on- the-fly design instead of a pre-planned master plan. It is also a constantly changing plan, often dictated by the new engine, or car or set of cars he happens to land. He admits some of his ideas don't work out. One of those was to put miniature rock on some of his tracks. "That was a mistake. All it takes is one piece of it to get on the tracks and it causes the cars to derail. I think I'm going to get out my vacuum cleaner and get rid of that." Stilwell said he happened to be in the right place at the right time to get a fast start on his collection. He found a collector in Washington who had 500 cars he wanted to sell out. "I think I bought all of his engines." Stilwell has several themed trains in his set. They include: an Army train, a construction train, tank car train, AM- TR AK train, box car train, car carrier train and a coal train. A future project he is planning is a monorail train. "They have to be set up perfect or they mess up," said Stilwell as he pondered to himself if it would be worth it. "I have never seen anything like it," said Stilwell's brother, Ray. "I don't know how he as the energy or patience to put it together," added Ray about the train set. But on any given day, Roy will be in his garage either adding onto or per- fecting his train sets. Sometimes, he just watches them run and occasion- ally hits an amplified train whistle just to add authenticity to it. Usually his best buddy, Joe, an Aus- tralian Shepherd will be on his lap or nearby. Roy keeps the trains going and they help keep him going. Roy and his best buddy, Joe, can almost always be found together, whether he his driving his truck or his model trains. The middle section of Roy Stilwell's train set-up has four levels with multiple loops on most of the levels. Roy Stilwell operates one of many trains at once from his stack of transformer train controllers. The maze of HO gauge train tracks on multiple levels and platforms in his garage keeps him busy nearly ev- ery day. Stilwell is full speed ahead on model trains