A daughter of the founder of Oldsmobile heard of the club's plight and generously donated an acre of land a half mile to the south. A switcher stops traffic on a busy Summit street as it spots a boxcar. Member John Bussard brought the city to life with many detailed scenes such as this one. The station was jacked up in early 1962, but in the moving process the contractor dropped the building twice and caused significant structural damage. Several more years of repairs and foundation work followed.
Older members recall that after the move the badly damaged layout never ran properly.
In the mid-1960s a new island layout was started. The 1960s layout was finally torn down in 1980, after years of complaints. Members grumbled that the layout could only be run from the elevated control tower, but when trains derailed, as they often did, members had to crawl under the benchwork and reach precariously through pop-ups. Once again the club launched major interior renovations before starting construction of the current layout in 1982. Since the station is a narrow 14 feet wide, plus the depth of the bay window area, space for end loops and aisles was limited.