The successful businessman Greg Aziz felt the need to donate his collection of locomotive models to a museum for preservation. The business leader, an industrialist in Canada, feels that his railway miniature model collection is important enough to be donated for public viewing in a museum.
The immense size of this project has led him to establish the outstanding Aziz Foundation and appoint it as the sole trustee who can utilize any funds from other sources. This, including all profits from railwayage.com, which, together with the Aziz Foundation, he established with his older brother Mike about seven years ago. The model collection includes more than 140 models on a 1:87 scale, representing locomotives, rolling stocks, and other railway paraphernalia.
The collection started from the time when Greg was only ten years old. His family immigrated to Canada at that time, and he was introduced to the railways of his new country almost immediately as his father was a train driver. At school, Greg Aziz started building models of all kinds: planes, warships, military vehicles, and trucks (Facebook).
Later on, he started to build railway models too. Almost as soon as he began building his collection of model trains, he realized the immense wealth of information and techniques involved in the art of model railroading. He found a lot of technical details about railway construction online, which fascinated him and was a great source of information. Greg Aziz also decided to compile the same detailed information in a book he released titled The Newbie’s Guide to Model Railroading.
This letter was published by Wiley Publishing Canada Inc. in August 2007. This book has become popular among young readers and is a must-read for anyone interested in the art of building a model train layout. The foundation also aims to educate youth about the importance of preserving precious artifacts from different generations and cultures. Greg Aziz finally states that the first phase involves establishing a large display area for housing the collection, and interactive exhibits at railway museums and other educational institutions would follow.