Norton,
You're right on the PFM owner being a GN fan. Not sure how I got hooked onto GN, living in Ohio, all my life! Being in the Marines, I was in Japan for 7 weeks and, every week end, I take a pocket full of yen (back then it was 360 Y to the $1) and go to a different city and check out their hobby shops, looking for brass engines: the bulk of them being Tenshodo and GN. I've always like the glacier colors with the air compressors usually on the front and the vanderbilt tender look. I've got an HO layout in the basement (33'X47'), 1500' of handlaid track on individual wooden ties (back in the 80's, they didn't have very good looking ready track, plus it was a lot cheaper), mainline 400' long, point to point, two huge yards (500 cars and 400).
I've belong to GNRHS (great northern railway historical society) since 1976.
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Audidriven,
Nice weathering. The bulk of my HO stuff is weathered but nothing in 3 rail.
I'm also into RC planes and go to Owatonna, MN every August.
Here's a video of one of my planes:
Make sure you watch the entire video on after landing and the plane taxis back.
