06-27-2022, 05:51 PM
Found this site a few weeks ago and thought I'd try joining.
I'm 55 and have been modeling in HO since my boyhood. It's been fits and starts until around 2006 when I decided to devote some of my basement office into a model railroad. Still a lot of fits and starts, but some progress has been made. The website in my signoff line is devoted to the creation and ongoing efforts.
I model the "Rainbow Years" of Conrail in the Lehigh Valley Gorge - former bankrupt railroads amalgamated by the U.S. Gov't. All diesel, nothing under wire, no diesels newer than 1975.
Who would have thought that eventually this monstrosity could turn a profit and get sold off to CSX and NS?
My formative years were spent in the Poconos of Pennsylvania where I regularly saw the mainline of the Erie Lackawanna and could travel south and see the Lehigh Valley, the Reading and the Penn Central. I could travel west and find the Delaware and Hudson. Then (eventually) came Big Blue and many changes in rail lines near my home.
Track is laid and I've been running trains for more than 10 years while I add scenery bit by bit and do things like weather my fleet.
I like to share techniques and learn from mistakes - thought joining this site might be useful for both!
I'm 55 and have been modeling in HO since my boyhood. It's been fits and starts until around 2006 when I decided to devote some of my basement office into a model railroad. Still a lot of fits and starts, but some progress has been made. The website in my signoff line is devoted to the creation and ongoing efforts.
I model the "Rainbow Years" of Conrail in the Lehigh Valley Gorge - former bankrupt railroads amalgamated by the U.S. Gov't. All diesel, nothing under wire, no diesels newer than 1975.
Who would have thought that eventually this monstrosity could turn a profit and get sold off to CSX and NS?
My formative years were spent in the Poconos of Pennsylvania where I regularly saw the mainline of the Erie Lackawanna and could travel south and see the Lehigh Valley, the Reading and the Penn Central. I could travel west and find the Delaware and Hudson. Then (eventually) came Big Blue and many changes in rail lines near my home.
Track is laid and I've been running trains for more than 10 years while I add scenery bit by bit and do things like weather my fleet.
I like to share techniques and learn from mistakes - thought joining this site might be useful for both!
Check out my "Rainbows in the Gorge" website: http://morristhemoosetm.wixsite.com/rainbows