For Christmas 2001, Santa brought my 8 year old grandson, Joshuah, an N-scale model railroad layout. Of course, his grandpa added a few
accessories that Santa forgot to put on the sleigh Christmas night.
The prototype for the model RR will be loosely based on
the Western Maryland RR line of the 1930's-1950's. I say
loosely based because an 8 year old is more interested in fun than
authenticity.
Over the 2001 Christmas holiday's Josh and I plan to construct
the layout Santa brought him. The 3' x 6' layout was built by
Santa's helpers at Woodland
Scenics
and is called Scenic Ridge. This is basically a
"layout- in-a-box", so it should be fun and relatively easy
for the two of us to build together. The layout will run a freight
and passenger line. The primary locomotive will be a Baldwin 2-8-0 steam
locomotive made by Bachmann.
Use the tabs at the left to learn more about our
N-scale adventure and follow our work-in-progress.
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