All,
For about 20 years of my S Scale life, I lived the dream/delusion of wanting "Wildwood to Pittsburgh". As previously mentioned, life, finances and the acquisition of an actual basement really changed things up drastically. The dream now had a real cinderblock box it had to fit into! We all want lots of the real thing, faithfully modeled of our favorite road/region/town, but typically get/build something substantially different if anything at all gets built. My reality check smacked me into "get trains running". That is pretty much the **only** goal. With my recent building flurry I am well within reach of doing just that to some extent on my new layout by the end of the year. That will be about a year total as I flopped the former "DeWitt Yard" on my basement floor on New Year's Day trying to see what I wanted and where to start. I did not make a resolution but have stuck to it as much as possible while doing life's other things. Last night I stopped into a friend's house to see the progress on his layout. It was determined that I might have not been there in 4 years. It is HO and possibly the best researched and best executed Altoona ever in model form. Besides the layout excel lance was the complete mental discipline Ken stuck to for many years in order to get to this point. He chose a **much** smaller overall region to model then the typical "Wildwood to Pittsburgh". Ken told me once but I think it is about 20 actual miles of prime Mighty PRR mainline that is being modeled to the utmost fidelity sans space restrictions. Further, given the massive variety of PRR rolling stock available in HO, if it did not run through Altoona in 1949, Ken does >not have it.< For me and I would guess most of us here with our constant "need something new" drive is a massive task in itself. In my mind the more you can stay focused on a theme the better you WILL succeed at the goals set. Tying it all together, rule number one is there are no rules. Run want you want. Andre CAN do whatever he wants. There is really no need for the mental consternations. Make the trains and scenery look great. Make the track mechanically sound. Everything else will fall in place or not really matter. Of course I will have a heavy PRR theme but will also have some PRSL, B&O, and Reading at the same time. I will also plan a "B&O Day" to get Dan V. to drive north! Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
