I am back into model railroading and building a new layout. I've built many layouts over the years, but for some reason, Twin Lakes & Western has been my recycled name for the last three. The first was a 16x16 foot modular layout that I built soon after my son was born. I think he was about 1 year and 6 months old when we ran our first train around the layout.
Then, in 2009, we moved to Italy. I had become a bit tired of model railroading, so it was a welcome break. I kept my layout stored inside the trailer I used to haul it around. When we returned, I decided to sell off the modules and build a home layout. I was given permission, by my family, to build a layout in the 'guest' room. I began work within weeks of returning to the States. This would become the new Twin Lakes & Western Railroad. Well, that only lasted less than a year before I decided I didn't like it and tore it down. Not only did I tear it down, but I sold almost everything I had: scenery, buildings, details, etc. The only thing I kept were the trains.
I was able to keep the room, which is now my room for creating mosaics (a different blog) and for whatever else I wanted to do.
This past winter I began to think about model trains again. Then, in January I decided to see if my son Brandon was interested in visiting the Corvallis Society of Model Engineers. I had been a part of that club for almost 10 years, two of which I served as president. Well, we visited and ended up paying 6 months of dues to renew our membership.
After a month or two of running our trains at the club, we decided we would enjoy going to model train shows again, so we began building a new modular layout.
So, here I am blogging about the building of our new layout. I hope you will find it interesting. We are trying some new construction methods, so it will be interesting to us as well.
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