Dream it. Plan it. Build it. Run it.
(Just) Do it!
Living in Sri Lanka has
certainly constrained my involvement in model railroading. There
really are no “hobby shops” here, so any equipment needs to be
“imported” and that makes it quite expensive on account of
shipping costs and the imposed duty clearing it through customs. And
until very recently, I thought that I was the only model railroader
in the country …
… and then I met Wasanta at St. Andrews Scottish Kirk ....
Wasanta
has recently gotten into the hobby of model railroading … and he
got into it really deep, really fast (and may be showing signs of
regret as he is looking for a buyer for ALL of his model trains and
equipment). Wasanta got in so deep on account of a small circle of
friends who are avid model railroaders; and he introduced me to many
of them. I was invited to run some trains on one of his friends
layouts. My trains are all packed in boxes in storage, and I really
didn’t look to hard for a certain British outline 3F (0-6-0T) dcc
with sound loco that I had imported from the UK several years back as
I was not sure of what to expect … but, Nalin had a rather large
layout in progress with 3 “loops” of track (with very broad
curves) operating with a MRC DCC controller … and … WOW!
After that I was
connected to several other local model railroaders and many of them
have very nice largish layouts (even by US standards); One of them,
Kittle, is very active in building layouts from benchwork to
completed scenery for others …. Well, the bug has bitten me again.
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