Olie
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Hello all. I've just recently discovered the amazing world of model railroading. I mean truly discovered. For years I had seen layouts and trains. My grandparents had an old set around the Christmas tree. Never really paid too much attention until this past Christmas. I'm active duty military and the wife and I were at Post Exchange. I saw the Lionel Polar Express G Scale set and thought, "That would be cool around the tree. Reminds me of grandma's house". That was the bite that infected me. I started looking online and holy cow, this is huge! My wife has a collection of Hallmark Nostalgic Houses and Shops and, you'll never guess that is scaled around HO train sets! Fast forward to mid February and I have already shown the late stages of addiction. Of course I purchased the Polar Express set (HO Scale). I needed a layout. Where to put it? Designed a layout for the wife's collection but that will take a while getting her to jump in. I needed something now!! We have vaulted ceilings on our living room so I started thinking about a wall mounted ceiling track. Needless to say, several weeks, too much money and a lot of time, I now have the shelf installed and two tracks encircling my living room. I will post up some pics soon.
I apologize for the long-winded intro but felt it was necessary as "Hello, I'm Olie and I'm addicted to model railroading" was too bland.
I look forward to absorbing as much info as I can as I never just dip my toes in. It's all or nothing (drives the wife CRAZY).
Edit: I've tried to upload pics but for some reason it rejects them. Maybe because I'm new. I will get some up tho.
I apologize for the long-winded intro but felt it was necessary as "Hello, I'm Olie and I'm addicted to model railroading" was too bland.
I look forward to absorbing as much info as I can as I never just dip my toes in. It's all or nothing (drives the wife CRAZY).
Edit: I've tried to upload pics but for some reason it rejects them. Maybe because I'm new. I will get some up tho.
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