History

My name is Todd and I started the 8x4 section of this layout back in 1995. My son got a HO trainset for Christmas and we tried to set it up on the floor of the kitchen. It kept derailing and we considered ourselves lucky if we got it to go around once without falling off the tracks. I then purchased an 8x4 piece of plywood and nailed the sectional track directly to the board. Needless to say, it wasn't much better.

At this point I started looking for information on how to lay the track better so that it would at least go around once. That's when I learned about flex track and cork road beds.

I then found a hobby store that was going out of business and found several of the buildings and purchased them at half price or lower. I had tried to build a layout many years ago with my Dad but never really got a lot done on it. So trying to live out my childhood dreams of having a real looking layout I began putting together my layout.

After moving to a new house, a friend of mine, ED, talked me into "adding" to my 8x4 layout. That was in November of 2000 and the work on the new layout eventually flowed back to the old layout and that was then completely redesigned.

Ed does most of the construction and track laying and my speciality is electronics and scenery. The next phase of our construction is to put a fiddle yard underneath the layout so that we can store complete trains and bring them up to the layout when we want to run them. All the major scenery is done so now it's just adding lots and lots of detail.

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