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When
David Holsinger indicates that when he's not conducting or composing, he
spends time playing with his train layout, we mean he SERIOUSLY plays
with trains! And like most
model train enthusiasts, it's just not a hobby . . . It's more like
an obsession! Take, for
instance, his previous project, the
"Box Canyon Layout" . . .
Trains: Page 1,
2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32,
33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38,
39, 40, 41,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46, 47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
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The
"Box Canyon Layout" was my second attempt at a somewhat large scale train scene. My first big layout was a simple L-shaped layout (4X8 Plywood Table attached at the hip by a second 4X8 Table) in a spare room at our home in Euless, Texas. When my wife and I moved to Tennessee in 1999, I discovered a wonderful addition houses have in
the more solid soil of the 'upper' south: the BASEMENT!!!!!
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My eyes lit up, my goosebumps had
goosebumps! . . . All this room and I imagined trains as far as the eye could see! . . . OK, so you
can imagine how long that particular thought lasted:
Wife mentioned, among other things; storage demand, pantry needs,
work bench, yard equipment, etc. . . . In her benevolence, I was
granted one quarter of the basement . . .
A real man does what a real man has to do.
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| Thus was born the Box Canyon Railroad. It was a
rectangular layout measuring about 17 feet long and 12 feet wide. It
was great. I had this marvelous center section open to walk about
and work in, and over a two year period, I watched the railroad tracks, the yards, the sidings, the scenery, the various factories
and businesses, grow, grow and grow . . expanding and expanding . .
ever INWARD until I had a little triangle hole about 3'X4'X2' left to
maneuver my 'not-exactly-the-god-of-fitness' body! I had, in HG-TV
parlance, painted myself into a corner. . . |
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| So, in the spring of 2003, following a weekend Layout Tour
during the Southeastern Region NMRA Convention in Chattanooga, I
began the destruction of this layout. Of course, much of the scenery
elements were saved: buildings, trees, brush, foliage, etc. The town
block had been built as a 'set-in' on a 2X4 sheet of 1/2' plywood and
thus stayed intact so it could eventually be incorporated in the new
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After three months of careful disassembly, I began to
rebuild. Incidentally, when my last son moved out to his own apartment and the basement garage was no longer needed, my wonderful,
adoring wife said those endearing words every train guy in the world
dreams of . . . .
'Ok, half the basement is yours.'
O, I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!! |
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And now, on track number one:
The
"Any-Time-Any-Spring-Run-Any-Engine-I-
Want-to-No-Matter-What-Era-Because-It's-
My-Table-And-I-Built-It-And-I-Can-Do-
Whatever-I-Want-to"
HO Train Layout!
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You are on Trains Page 1. Click the
numbers below to navigate to other Trains Pages.
Trains: Page 1,
2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32,
33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38,
39, 40, 41,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46, 47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52, 53
Page 1 - Box Canyon Layout
Page 2 - Anytime, Any Spring Disclaimer
Page
3 - Starting Over, December 2003
Page 4 - March, 2004
Page 5 - June, 2004
Page 8 - Layout Design
Page 9 - August, 2004
Page 11 - January, 2005
Page 16 - January, 2005 Redux
Page 17 - First Day of Summer, 2005
Page 20
- August, 2005
Page 21 - In the Farmland, February 2006
Page 23 - Layout
Potpourri, February 2006
Page 25 - In the Cornfields, 2006
Page 27 - July,
2006
Page 30 - November, 2006
Page 33 - MARCH, 2007 - A Break in the
Action
Page 35 - November, 2008 - The ATAS Returns!
Page 39 - January,
2009
Page 42 - March, 2009 - Burlington Station
Page 44 - April, 2009
Page 45 - May, 2009 - The Cliffside Nursery
Page 51 - August, 2009 – The Last
Neighborhood
Page 52 - November, 2009
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