Check out this excellent story from CBC News (just in time for Father’s Day!) about YTM Executive Director Sean Ridder and his dad Jerry, a recently retired electrical engineer living in New Jersey, collaborating on a huge project aimed at overhauling the museum’s White Pass & Yukon Route model train layout.

The layout has been on display for decades, but a new Arduino-based software system has breathed new life into the exhibit.

Read more about the project here

& listen to CBC’s interview about this father-son time here