Good afternoon!
After lurking on and off this list for years, and signing up a month or so ago,
I thought that I should introduce myself!
My name is Dan Kirlin. I have been modeling in S scale since the summer of
1982, so I am just coming up on my 30th anniversary in S scale. Now I am told
at some meetings, that when a person introduces himself, at that point the
entire group responds with " Hello Dan !, oh not that kind of group.
I seem to know a fair number of the participants on the list - I live in
Southern Ontario ( Kitchener / Waterloo area ) so I know most of the guys
around here. I also taught a certain hobby shop owner in the Chicago area how
to enjoy a nice cold canadian beer......seems to me that I also taught that
same lesson to a couple of S brass importers I know, as well as two other " S "
manufacturers.
In the mid 1980's I lived and worked in the Windsor / Detroit area, and had the
pleasure of getting to know many of the SMSG members of the day - all started
by a chance encounter with Dave Held at P&D Hobbies. He invited me to a
monthly meeting which I thoroughly enjoyed, and then attended most of the
meetings while living in that area. At the time, I was an area manager for an
International Restaurant company, which had me transferring to Winnipeg shortly
after getting married in 1986. Winnipeg is basicaaly where I grew up, and my
modeling focus is the CNR line between Winnipeg and Portage La Prarie Manitoba
circa 1959. This area is where steam died on the CNR in April of 1960, so I
chose the fall of 1959 as my focus, because most of the AG crops would be in
the harvest process making the wheat fields easier to model, and 1959 was a
very busy crop year for the railways out west, so there was still a lot of big
steam running beside the first gen diesel fleet which was all on the property
by the fall of 1960, so a varied diesel roster is viable.
In 1997, my wife and I transferred back to Southern Ontario to be closer to our
aging parents. I have been self employed since 1993, and I have a decent
basement and workshop to build my layout.
When I signed up for this list, I of course read the rules with regards to
Flyer subjects - but I do have to pass on a short tale. I use to know the
number of some much desired Flyer freight car, and when I told someone that I
modeled in S scale, of course they would tell me all about their Flyer etc., at
which point I would disclose that I once owned the xxxx ( rare freight car )
and that I ran it through me tablesaw to try and correct its width - that
didn't help, and never bought a piece of flyer again! This usually generated a
reaction!
All joking aside, I never really owned any Flyer - I have been a model
railroader for as long as I can remember - first with Lionel, then with HO
scale, but in 1982, I was getting really fed up with the overall mechanical
quality ( lack thereof ) of almost all of the HO equipement that I was buying,
and started looking for something better. I had seen some very nice quality O
scale equipement, but I was a batchelor at the time, and didn't think that I
would ever have sufficient space to model what I wanted in O scale, so
responding to an advert and a telephone call with Ron Bashista, I ordered and
promptly received an American Models FP-7 in the mail. I was hooked, and have
been ever since.
Anyways - good afternoon.
Dan Kirlin / Waterloo, Ontario
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