I had grown up with trains along with my older brothers and my younger sister who still doesnt care for them much. We grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. We grew up going to many model railroad shows. I always liked the small narrow gauge stuff. And enjoyed the little mining trams. We also had the opportunity to ride many full size railroads. My favorite thing was all the live steam and tourist train in the area.

This had sparked an idea in one of my brothers Russs mind to build a 7.5 inch gauge locomotive. After a lot of work and trying to cut up an old washing machine It was never completed. It was finally rebuilt and completed by myself. It was named Sparky This led me to search for rail. But what I found started a whole new idea 20# rail was to big for a 7.5 gauge railroad.

The R&R Railway began with the 8 pieces of rail I had found at my job one day. They had been used for a cloths line. This was very common in my area, that had a history of mining. This sparked an idea to build a small railroad. That idea grew and grew. We soon found a lot of rail for free. And some was purchased at a low cost. I now worked for local short line so I was able to get some old push carts and make them into 18 gauge cars. The next project was an old tie handler. This was moved to my back yard. Over the next few years the tie handler was converted into the R&R 101. This is a diesel hydraulic with air brakes it sits 2 people in the cab.

My parents own a 20 acre piece of land just out side town, Emmett Idaho. So We began to lay some track. This was done using 4x6 and 4x4s that were cut and treated. The boards were donated by the RR that I work for. We also got a donation of rail from a local saw mill. So With all this we began to built our little rail road.