My Railroad History
Like most model or toy train people, my
parents gave me a wonderful gift of an O Scale Train set. Mine was a three-rail set made by Marx. A figure eight was the plan and I had a neat
stop light that was more like an automobile highway stop light than a railroad
signal. The set contained two trains, a
steam and a diesel. One train
automatically stopped while the light was red and let the other train pass,
then it would proceed.
I also had a Lionel switch tower and
some
My dream back then (around age eleven)
was to build a layout representing a theme park like
That was it for my train layouts until I
got married at age 23. My wife and I
purchased a 40’ mobile home (in the dark) J and I built an HO train layout in the spare
bedroom. Later we built a nice brick
home and my wife assisted me in building a 64 square foot HO layout…four 4*8
tables together. I worked at several
more HO layouts everywhere I’ve ever lived.
Finally God blessed us with a wonderful
home in the
I have had the wonderful blessing to
travel to the beautiful state of
Along with that, my railroad inspiration
comes from Malcolm Furlow (one of the best, if not THE BEST) model railroaders
in our times. He built many layouts including The “
I love trains of all scales and
models. My wife, my daughter, my sister
and my mother have all bought me trains through the years… some HO, N, O, On30
and G Scales. I do not intend to let
any of these marvelous toys and models just sit in the boxes. Well, I probably won’t use the HO and maybe
not the N scales as these are so little that figures of people and animals are
harder to see than their big brothers of On30, O and G.