Hello fellow Model Railroaders!
My name is Robert Putnick, and I’m a teenage modeler in both HO-Scale and N-Scale: my small (4’ x 4’) HO-Scale autumn-themed layout, which I started in my Freshman year of High School, has been entitled the “Ephrata Valley Railroad,” and can be viewed on its website here. My N-Scale layout is actually a 5’ x 8’ replica of the Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA, and has therefore been appropriately named “The Horseshoe Curve Branch Line,” and it too has its own website (where I post the Horseshoe Curve Weekly every weekend, which are posts containing at least 1 photo, and a caption highlighting action seen on the layout.) I’m also a member of the Philadelphia Division of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), and am honored to state that both of my layouts have been featured on the division’s website, under the “Layouts” page. Furthermore, I am a self-published author with 3 novels, 1 children’s book, and 1 railroad book entitled Pennsylvania RR Sharks: A Pictorial currently available on Amazon. I hope that this has served to fully introduce…me! [:D]
There has been a yearning on my mind for quite some time now, to take my hobby to higher heights. Higher Heights, meaning taking my passion of model railroading and sharing it further with the world, while encouraging fellow young people who are interested in trains, but are not being recognized.
So, I have proceeded to found an organization called “TEENS for TRAINS - A New generation for an Old tradition.” Its purpose - to be a virtual organization dedicated to inciting a new generation to the old tradition of model railroading. By employing technology, TEENS for TRAINS intend