Hi Bill,
Sorry I did not get back to you earlier. Funny thing, I have been working on
the the layout and have not been about my comupter. I have been taking off work
to stay home and get the trains back out of the boxes, work on the track and
relearn digitrax.
You are correct about starting in Sn3 and not flyer. I was LION O27 as a you
boy in the late 50s, found N scale in the last 60s, HO in the very early 80s.
Completed an Ho layout around 1983 and was on all the locale NMRA tours. One
day a fellow HOn3 told me that my standard gauge looked like narrow gauge and
that I should me this guy named Rich Owings. He modeled in Sn3 by converting
HO. We met, I checked out his layout and all his scratch stuff and I was
hooked.
My first Sn3 car was scratched from NG gazette magazine. C&S gon phase 3. Still
run it today. My first brass loco was a PFM c-16. I made payments on it at the
hobby shop. Darn proud of that loco and it still is one of my best runners
after many years of breaking in, repower and gearing.
The Tamalco cars are my favorite to build. For some reason I just like working
in wood. I got to meet Swede a convetion and I also talked to Claud Wade about
S. He just could not talk me into standard gauge back then. Wish I would have
listened. I still use his suggestion of how to build a resistance soldering
unit. Works great 20+ years latter.
PBL I cools stuff. I like building his cars they are very detailed.
I now have gone standard gauge in S and have darn near as much equipment as
narrow.
When I built my layout I made sure that both gauges had the same running space.
Ron,
I like DRGW becuase I fly fish in New Mexico and Colorado. Just can't get away
from the mountains.
Mike S
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