Well being the engineer that I am here are my phases for builidng the railroad: 1) Measure the space and elevations of the area for the layout 2) Design the layout on the computer using tools that acurately measure distance, track sizes, and elevations 3) Run some test on the track radii and locomotives to…
Well the Peachtree City layout was a hit and I decided to build that first. I worked on many different layouts and options. Once I knew the basic requirements I started to order track and other items. Ebay was my favorite stop to try to find used equipment. I was bidding on different items 2-3…
Well as you can imagine everyone is home for the holidays and I am showing them the layouts that I have designed for the lakehouse. I also set up a track layout on the back porch of the deck in Peachtree City and this was a hit for Simon and Joanna. They could not get…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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