For as long as I can remember, there have been trains in my life.  From about age four, I could see my brother Dean’s Lionel train layout on the other side of the locked wire fence that divided our basement in two.  One side was the family area, with a […]

I became involved with model railways and  trains in general at a very young age. I grew up in a family where model trains were in the blood. My dear dad (now deceased), with his father, and my 2 uncles,  were all involved with ‘O’ gauge. These were all scratch-built […]

It all started quite some time ago when my friend Roger Dohnt and I became good friends. We and our wives were members of the same church in Penrith and one day Roger just happened to mention that he had a small model railway layout in his garage. Realising that […]

I first became interested in model trains when one of my employees asked if he could bring in to work some of his model trains to work on the fine detailing of them when there was no work to do. I agreed to this and I immediately took an interest […]