The truth is I like blogs, always have. I have an inordinately large amount of blogs out there. Every time I started a project I started a blog. Even if the project lost momentum and died. Like the Lincolnshire and Continental Railroad for example. I've moved house since that blog started, so that blog is pretty well dead. Others like the Potato Farm Railway layout merely slumber.
Not everyone will be wondering what the project will be, because you'll have followed the link from the Facebook page and have an idea what's going on. For others following from other links here you go.
It will be a Micro layout built in an APA Box. Micro Layouts being layouts under 4 square feet, as popularised by the late Carl Arendt, and the APA box being a flatpack toy storage box, (now discontinued), from IKEA, that I discovered back in 2012 or so, and developed its use as a model railway layout cabinet, (with of course, a blog ). The use of the APA as a model railway base took over the world and very likely lead to the manufacture of laser cut baseboard kits from people like Tim Horn.
For many years I've had a fascination with the Bachmann On30 range and once in a while I find myself buying loco's and stock. Just because I might build a layout one day. I have a small and varied range of stock, but enough to run a small layout.
Another item I've bought on and off over the years is the magazine Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette. The weird and wonderful equipment on logging lines fascinated me. Railroad names like White Pass and Yukon, and Durango and Silverton conjured up Wild West images in my mind during my teenage years.
So really, right now, this project is a coming together of so many things in the model railroad world that I have been involved with, or fascinated with. It seems quite a natural thing to work on.
Next, we might just talk about the actual layout!
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