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David Holsinger’s ANY-TIME-ANY-SPRING, ETC.
LAYOUT DISCLAIMER: I
play with trains.
There, I’ve said it. I’m
not interested in prototypical railroading.
I don’t do any that stuff that “real” model railroaders do,
and there’s a reason for that.
I
grew up in a small town in north central Missouri. The main Santa
Fe and Wabash lines between St. Louis and Kansas City ran right through
the middle of my little farm community. On those four tracks, over
85 trains a day barreled through town when I was a kid. I lived on
a farm a mile from town and from my upstairs bedroom window I watched as
those freights and passenger trains of the 50’s and early 60’s
roared across the countryside just a half mile from my house, morning,
noon, and night. My Grandmother’s house in town was less than 50
yards from the tracks. When the trains sped through, the whole
neighborhood shook.
I remember watching the trains “catch” the mailbags at the
depot.
I
remember two sensational head-on train wrecks in the middle of town
during my boyhood years, both caused by work trains pulling out too
early onto the main line and meeting head-on with a thundering freight
train once and another time with a mail train.
I recall that the mail train was full of uniforms for the Air
Force Academy and the track was littered with blue overcoats for weeks
during the cleanup. I know
the work train guys jumped to safety, but both the engineers were
killed, one making his final run before retirement.
Anyway, I never watched a “yard”.
There were no industries around Hardin, Missouri, unless you
counted the sidings to the grain elevators.
So, to this day, I just like to watch the trains run.
And that’s the kind of layout I like to build.
Lots of curves, grades, and straight-aways with a multitude of
different trains all running through the scenes.
I sit at different spots around my layout, sometimes high and
sometimes at eye level and just watch the trains roll by.
So, all you “real” train guys can shake your heads sadly and
say, “What a pity this guy isn’t really one of us”, but I’ll
just keep contentedly doing what I do, enjoying every moment. I play with trains. You are on Trains Page 2. 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 Page
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