Where were you born in Germany? My gr-grandfather (Hufmann) was a school
teacher in a small town near Hamburg who emigrated to America and opened a
general store.
Father worked on the Southern Railway for 30 years beginning right after
WW-1. He began as a coach cleaner and wound up doing about every blue
collar job the railroad had; brakeman, flagman, conductor, engineer,
fireman; and in the shop; engine mechanic, car man, fire knocker, hostler,
etc.; all on steam trains. No diesels before the 1940s; at least on the
Southern Railway.
Gerry
From: "MG" <trainpain2...@aol.com>
See there is the point that proves people are different. I can't wait to
run the things. All that scenicing and so on is a pain in the butt to me.
I do the minimum that I can get away with at any one time. A lot of my
houses and other buildings look like they were just built as does all the
rolling stock. Just too much fun to run them around and do the switching
stuff.
Now my Dad was the opposite. He was a builder. In the original train
layout that he built "for Manfred" (right, I was 3 at the time, guess how
much I got to play with it ;-)), he hand built all the houses, a castle
and even my Mom's dream house up on a nice hill with garden and woods
behind it. Couldn't bring it with us when we came over here and he never
did get another one built. Too busy having to make money to live on. So
now I carry on. Weird how life works. Too bad I couldn't get my girls
interested in the train stuff. Then again I was kind of busy also. My bad.
Manfred
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:10:29 -0400
From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com>
When the kids were younger I had a nice 8' x 15' layout in the basement. I
enjoyed doing all of the "decorations" such as the trees and buildings
more than running the trains. I still have all of our HO rolling stock and
some of the buildings.
I really got into weathering and things like that with the buildings.
Dan
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