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LDS Film Maker Gets Joy from Small Train (Small train brings great joy)

Summarized by Vickie Speek

LDS Film Maker Gets Joy from Small Train (Small train brings great joy)
Deseret News 7Sep99 L5
By Gib Twyman: Deseret News staff writer

Starting in 1950, Thirot worked first for KSL-TV, then for Film Service Corp. in Salt Lake City, winding up a vice president/general manager. For 40 years he filmed the University of Utah basketball and football games, only missing two football games in 40 years. Over the years, he purchased and rebuilt a 12-inch gauge steam locomotive, built rail cars, and built a mini-railroad out of 3,000 feet of track from a Eureka gold-and-silver mine.

In 1970, Thiriot and his wife, Pat, moved the whole train, kit-'n'-caboodle, to their summer home on six acres one-half mile north of Homestead Resort in Midway. It took him two years to lay out the track, friends helped build several steam engines and a diesel over the next several years. Keeping the train yard in apple-pie order requires constant work. "Keeps me young," Thirot said, "I may be almost 80, but I think 30."



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