We are taking a class together, starting this Thursday night, in model railroading. Today we went to an event at Portland (CT) High School and saw some fantastic layouts. Bill loves HO, but the scale is just a tad too small for my two D56 collections, Halloween and North Pole. He will still work with HO, but I like S. It is just the right size. I imagine an S scale train with an orange engine and black cars zipping by Grimsly's Retirement Home and Walter and Larry's Crypt. And what could be cuter than a Christmas train, with a peppermint stripped tanker, flying by the North Pole Cookie Exchange and the Gumdrop Shop?
Not too big, not too small, just right! Where have we heard that before?
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By Gaspirtz (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
We didn't see this train at the show, but it gives an idea of what can be done with these detailed models.
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By Graham Causer, Wombourne, United Kingdom [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
