Since I won't be in the 2006 Model Railroad Planning.......

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I guess I have missed another 15 minutes of fame. Still you can visit my website and follow the building of my layout. I am chronicling all the adventures.

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We aren’t doing On30 anymore, and we are having more fun than ever modeling the 1870’s. Visit us at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/

Thank you if you visit
Harold

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You do great stuff. I liked you ON 30 stuff. I assume I will like your other stuff also. I like visting your site, so MRR will have to get to you later. In the meantime, thanks for being here.

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Harold, what happened to your On30? It seemed you were pretty into it.

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I always wanted to model the 1870’s and felt I could get close enough to that with modeling the 1880’s in O narrow gauge. On30 makes an inexpensive arena. Then I realized that all the older “HO” old time equipment equipment was really OO scale (4mm/ft vs 3.5mm/ft} running on HO track. I had an epiphany and switched. The internet provides figures and wagon from the United Kingdom. Most HO buildings can be converted to the smaller 1870’s era. I have more fun in the new format than the old On30. See my web article about this at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/why/

The slightly larger OO scale is so much better than HO for modeling.

Just a thought
Harold

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gee Harold…that’s got to be a feeling worse than getting kicked off of “Star Search”…chuck

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Harold, sorry you will not be in MRP this year; I woud have preferred you to the article that they are including. Still there is always your web site which I have been enjoying since I found the link from the Mid-altlantic NG Convention site. Got some good hints from it. Thanks for sharing your talents with us.

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Actually I got an e-mail last September that I and another poor fellow Dave Clemons wouldn’t be in the 2006 MRP due to “scheduling problems”. That was a real downer, talk about your puppy dying. At least I now have proof that I was going to be in the mag.

Just a thought
Harold

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A late friend of mine was scheduled in the Great Model Railroads annuals for a few years and got really frustrated at being rescheduled several times. He asked me to take photos of newer portions of his layout for submitting a possible article on it, which I did. In the meantime MR published material on his work in a monthly issue. By that time much of the layout had changed. He passed away some time after that, I imagine contented that his layout did get published.

Bob Boudreau