Railroad Bridge

Railroad Bridge

My Childhood Dream Was To Own A Magnificent Model Railroad Layout

I have a memory of a time when as a small boy my father decided to take me along with him to a model trains display and I saw the most astonishing thing I had ever seen a model trains world in miniature.

I stood there in awe of the scene I saw before me of a world in miniature with buildings and so many trains running this way and that along the tracks disappearing into tunnels and the reappearing somewhere else on the layout.

Some of the trains were very long made up of dozens of coal trucks or freight cars and lots of shorter trains with passenger carriages full of people
and they stopped at the stations and then moved on again to the next one.

There were mountain for the trains to run through and around and the bridges carrying the railroad over rivers and lakes all made it look so lifelike I half expected to see little people walking around the scenes.

The lasting memories I have of that display have left me with a determination that I was perfectly capable of build a model train layout which would be very similar to the one that impressed me so much as a child.

It is a bit daunting thinking of the work involved in producing something that will be as impressive as the miniature world of trains and people and mountains I saw that day.

We all have childhood dreams that we hope to achieve and I believe the time has come to put all my thoughts down into a real project and build the layout and I expect to be working on this for a long time but it will be a pleasure.

I am not an artist so some of this work will be difficult to make it all look real but I have plenty of time and I have found some good helpful guides to building model railroad layouts and I plan to continue to build and develop the layout when I retire.

My childhood memories of that model train exhibition was quite profound and it never went away even after all these years so I am sure that building and developing a realistic model train layout is something that will be my hobby for years to come.