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MY PLANS


The photo above is from the layout of the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum. The scence is from Helmstetter's curve in Western Maryland on the stretch of the Connellsville Sub between Frostburg and Cumberland. Someday, I intend to reproduce the entire system with more accuracy than the Pittsburgh Model Railroad Historical Society did.

Ever since I was a little kid, I always played with my dad's HO scale trains. Even though they were a cheap TYCO set from the late 1970's I admired the detail on those little scale freight cars and engine. I would sit there for hours around the Christmas tree and run the train around the loop. The original train I had was a lighted Santa Fe GP-20 diesel locomotive, a 40' Union Pacific gondola, a Burlington Northern 50' plug door box car, a Frisco bi-level auto rack with cars, a Texaco tank car, and a Santa Fe 34' rear cupola caboose. I still have all of those pieces today, which have either been kitbashed or modified in some way. I was equally fascinated by my dad's "HO" kits, as he called them. Me and my mom would buy him some sort of HO building kit every year. His results have been astoundingly realistic, with accurate shades of life like colors and weathering. He has applied w everything from water stians to snow to some of his buildings. Then, when I was almost a teenager, my dad cancelled the platform layout every Christmas from then on. However, I contiued to set up the trains and buildings as an imaginary town on the dining room server every year after that. Then in 1998 my model railroading spirit took off. I had been a growing Western Maryland Railway fan ever since I was about 13. I began my subscription to Model Railroader and found out about the Greenberg Great Train show that came to the Pittsburgh Expo Mart three times a year. From then on I have had ample connections to WM stuff online upon getting my computer in 1999. eBay has been a great place to get HO scale WM products, especially locomotives.

Over the coming years, my goal is to eventually assemble the entire fleet of WM diesel locos and cabooses. How do I do that, you might ask? Well, I either bid on them online, buy from custom painters, or buy cheap stuff and do some of the painting myself. With cheap decals and paints, I can easily decorate all of the cabooses and some of the locos. My dad is in charge of the building kits from here on in, while I am in charge of the grading, trackage, cars, locos, wiring, etc. We are both in charge of the scenery/landscape since this field is foreign to both of us at this time. I plan to eventually build the entire WM system in a suitable building somewhere in the future. The time period will be from the 1950s-1970s. The scenery will be suitable for all time periods, while the trains will be grouped together based on locomotive types, paint schemes, built/shop dates on cars, etc, so there will be a '1958' train or a 1971 train. This page will tell about the equipment I have and will also monitor the progress of the dream layout I will build.

 
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