Considering all the guardian angels who have looked over the Galveston Railroad Museum for more than a quarter century, where were they in the early morning hours of September 13, 2008, when Hurricane Ike almost destroyed it all? “We had about $180,000 worth of Lionel model trains donated to us—it was so elaborate, we called it our ‘ooh and ah’ room because that was the reaction when someone walked in, but we lost it all in the storm,” remembers Morris Gould, executive directo


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