HO Tour Car Pictures

[Tom]

Timothy is the youngest of the 4 of us kids, so we have always called him Timmy. He still lives at home with Mom and Dad and with Mom and Dad working for Amtrak (Dad has since retired recently), he takes care of the house and mom's two little mutts. She still calls him Timmy too. I call him "TIMMAAAAY" on account of the character from "Southpark". He's as involved with the WP RR Museum in Portola as I am, and up there we all have nicknames, just like the old WP, and that's what they call him too. We're ALL big Southpark fans up there. The "time portal" (I never thought of that, but now that you mention it, it does look like one) is Mom's washing machine or dryer, one of the two. Since the new machines are front loaders, and to conserve space in the garage for the layout, she had the delivery guy stack them. Apparently you can do that with those particular machines. There is usually a backdrop at that end of the layout, we had just forgot to screw it back on to the facia. We are considering putting a backdrop on the wall of the garage behind the layout too, but for right now, we're just happy it's running again, so in due time I guess. And for now, he has a few railroad signs hanging there.