Re: NNG: So Who Are You?

Howdy folks,

I'm all in too. My name is Dan Peterson and I live in Apple Valley, Minnesota, a southern burb of Minneapolis. I'm a 48 year old unemployed electrical engineering type with degrees in geophysics and physics. Hoping to find work again soon.

My parents made the mistake when I was five of buying a house in Madison, Wi with the Illinois Central branchline running through the back yard. That and a trip to the city's main library during a model railroad show was all it took. Anything trains was fair game.

In the early 70's our family lived in American Falls, Idaho along the UP mainline. So when I was working in the potato fields I had many an opportunity to observe the monster DD-35 and DDA-40X locomotives.

When we moved back to Madison me and my middle school friend would spend every available hour chasing the Milwaukee Road, C&NW as well is the Illinois Central trains all over the area on our bikes.

In the late 70's Alan Brewster published in Model Railroader Magazine a series of D&RGW drawings of rolling stock and locomotives and that's when I decided to take up narrow gauge modeling. I started in HOn3 but jumped to On3 because the expanded detailing I could achieve. The layout is now in it's birthing stage now that my wife and I have put down roots.

I also lived in Albuquerque and Placitas, NM for ten years while working and enjoyed the many trips to Chama and Durango and have ridden both of the trains. I am also now enrolled in the October Fireman/Engineer school at Chama and am very excited about this dream coming true.

I greatly enjoy reading this forum. Thanx for all of the good info.

Dan



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