Hello Everyone,
This is my first post on this forum. My name is Nick and I am from South Florida. I've been a railroad modeler literally since day one of my life. My mother was in the hospital because they were going to do a C-section on her because I was way too big. She called my dad at home and told him to go to the hospital because they were going to do the surgery> Well, good ole dad showed up the following day. I was already born, 24" long and 9.5 lbs. Mom was upset and she asked my dad why he was not there? Typical Dad he told her that he was working on the train layout (HO scale) because he wanted to have the layout done before I was born. So since day one I had a layout in my life.
I have modeled in all scales except 3-Rails. So now I decided to jump the band wagon. Before this layout I had an 009 scale Euro style layout, 15 x 12. That's UK HO scale, narrow gauge. I took that apart and on the same area I started my 3-Rail layout. On the 31st of December, two friends of mine took the old one out. After that, we went to the hobby shop and bought a handful of MTH track and I bought a Premier SD40-2 FEC RR engine. On the first of January I started to lay track. Yesterday, I finished laying all of 150 feet of track. Today (7 of Jan), I connected all the feeder wires and ran it to a central area. Now I am waiting for the MTH WiFi DCS system that should arrive this Friday.
So this is me in a nutshell. I am looking for a lot of help and tricks of the trade. I am always willing to learn. When I get a chance I will post some photos of the layout.
