09-07-2016, 08:07 AM
Greetings one and all. Not a spammer!! Just a new guy who has been model railroading for more years than I can remember. I am on my, 8th, I think, layout. But this one will be the last as we have downsized to an apartment and won't be getting anything larger.
A bit about me. 63 years old. Currently live in Jacksonville Fl, but will be retiring in another 16 months and moving to Muskegon Mi. Yes, thats right. Moving from Florida to Michigan. I know thats bass ackwards, but there is good reason for it. I model HO. Dabbled in N briefly but prefer HO. Modeled primarily ACL and CSX in Florida, but have recently decided I needed a change so all the ACL and CSX stuff went to EBay and I bought a couple of Milwaukee Road engines. Also changed locales completely. Very loosely modeling Goose Island in Chicago. Proto Free Lancing is how its descrbed. Using the area but free lancing operations to make it a bit more interesting.
On that note I also was tipped off that a user here, Faraway, has done a very nice job of modeling the Morton Salt plant just outside Chicago, which coincidentially I am also planning to model. Faraway, if you are reading this, I would really appreciate you getting in touch with me so I can pick your brain as to how you model that structure. I will have to compress it somewhat since I don't have 5.5 feet to devote to it, but I can make a pretty good representation.
So they you have it. I also have a blog if anyone cares to check out some of the pictures I have posted on my work thusfar. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://johnnybweb.wordpress.com">https://johnnybweb.wordpress.com</a><!-- m -->
A bit about me. 63 years old. Currently live in Jacksonville Fl, but will be retiring in another 16 months and moving to Muskegon Mi. Yes, thats right. Moving from Florida to Michigan. I know thats bass ackwards, but there is good reason for it. I model HO. Dabbled in N briefly but prefer HO. Modeled primarily ACL and CSX in Florida, but have recently decided I needed a change so all the ACL and CSX stuff went to EBay and I bought a couple of Milwaukee Road engines. Also changed locales completely. Very loosely modeling Goose Island in Chicago. Proto Free Lancing is how its descrbed. Using the area but free lancing operations to make it a bit more interesting.
On that note I also was tipped off that a user here, Faraway, has done a very nice job of modeling the Morton Salt plant just outside Chicago, which coincidentially I am also planning to model. Faraway, if you are reading this, I would really appreciate you getting in touch with me so I can pick your brain as to how you model that structure. I will have to compress it somewhat since I don't have 5.5 feet to devote to it, but I can make a pretty good representation.
So they you have it. I also have a blog if anyone cares to check out some of the pictures I have posted on my work thusfar. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://johnnybweb.wordpress.com">https://johnnybweb.wordpress.com</a><!-- m -->
JohnnyB
Counting down to retirement
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Counting down to retirement
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