From left, Ben Read, executive director of Tate Depot Train Society, Susan Gibson, Bill Gibson and Morris Smith, executive secretary of the Tate Depot Model Railroaders. On March 19, exactly five years after Bill Gibson and Ben Read approached Pickens County with the idea to donate the Gibson’s professionally built model railroad, the Tate Depot Model Railroaders and Tate Depot Train Society honored them with a special award and recognition.