Model Railroad Plan for the Lakehouse

After completion of the exterior work I decided to get working on the layout plan.  Of course being the computer guru that I am I had to have a computer program to plan the layout and I found the perfect program.  I downloaded it and got started right away on planning the layout….. wel not…

Lakehouse Train Layout Vision

In 2009 Suzanna and I bought a house on Lake Lanier. I was doing a lot of sailing on the lake and the sailing club was about 1.5 hours from our Peachtree City house. The vision was then to buy a house in a depressed market (housing market down and a drought causing record low…

Lakehouse Model Railroad Plan

We bought the lakehouse on Lake Lanier about 7 years ago.  When we bout the house it was decided to upgrade the house and improve the exterior as a first phase.  The house really needed an exterior lift and we decided to raise the roof and build a front porch. At the time we bought…

Model Railroading History

I am starting to work on a model railroad.  I started my first model railroad when I was 16 years old when we moved to Sanford North Carolina.  My parents had a spare room in the basement and I used my earnings from cutting lawns, delivering newspapers and shoveling snow.  I built a simple HO…

Panama Cruise

Nana Sue and I are on a cruise through the Panama Canal.  We don’t actually go all the way through but go through turn around partway and then come back out.  A little puzzling but if you understand about the Panama Canal then you will understand.  A fantastic trip and we had a great time.…

Maschsee Lake Festival – Hannover Germany

Nana Sue and I decided to visit Haley this August of 2014.  We love Germany and it is probably my most favorite country to visit in the world.  (Dublin is my most favorite City in the world to visit though). Haley has an apartment very close to the city center and we stayed there all…

Steam Engine Train to the Top of Germany

Haley and I on our last day went on a steam engine train to the top mountain in Germany. The start of the trip was a little over an hour from Hannover and Haley used her QuickCar rental to get us there. The steam engine was built in 1931, during WWII and was completely refurbished…

Hannover Palace Gardens

One of the most beautiful places I visited during my visit to Hannover was the Hannover Palace gardens. At several of the museums we visited we found that there was a common King between Germany and England for about 130 years. This was due to Queen Ann not having any children and one of her…

TV Special Tonight on the Avalanche

Discovery channel is airing a special tonight at 9pm on the Avalanche. The NBC filming crew (hired by the discovery channel) hiked up with us to base camp. Several times they stayed in the same tea houses that we stayed at and we watched them film in different areas as we were hiking up. You…