09-12-2016, 08:46 PM
railbuilderdhd Wrote:.....Has there been many ideas or modeling done of the modern GERN. Fast Forward to 2020 and GERN is a business grown beyond what could have ever been imagined.
Each modeller is free to interpret GERN as best suits their interests. It's meant to be a fun thing (it actually started back in the '50s as a sideshow to a table hockey league that my brother Steven and I created. We each had several teams with made-up names and named players - not real ones. We kept scoring and goaltending statistics, and had playoffs and final series after each "season". One of his star players was a centre named Cookie Gibson, and Steven, always very imaginative, let it be known that Cookie, when not scoring goals, was a "flux magnate", and CEO of GERN Industries.)
Almost all of the GERN-related stuff springs from his fertile (related to fertiliser, I guess) mind. When I started building my current layout, I decided to drag GERN out of that past, as it seemed to me that a GERN processing plant could be a great traffic generator.
There are GERN facilities, both large and small, in several different eras, including, I think, present day. One of the largest is that of Gary S (currently taking a bit of a holiday from model railroading), but even a GERN factory in a 'phone booth could generate dozens of carloads daily if you so choose.
Have fun with it - it'll make your model railroading at least 3% better. The only requirement is, should you choose to create GERN rolling stock, that you contact me for car numbers - this is only to prevent duplicates. The list of cars wearing GILX reporting marks currently totals 113 cars of various types.
Wayne