And so it begins....

What to do, what to do, what to do? Spring is opening all kinds of possibilities this year. I mentioned earlier that I will have more time now that I am retired. I also mentioned that we are trying our hands at golf. And now, I find that I have time to start a project that will be ongoing, I would imagine, for years to come (or at least until I run out of space).

Yup, I promised myself a LONG time ago that when I retired I was going to set up a scale model railroad system. In anticipation of that, I have been collecting odds and ends over the years.

A few months ago I finally decided on my theme. It is going to be of the city of Randall, Minnesota, circa 1950s. Over the last few weeks I have been visiting with quite a few people in town. It seems that Randall was quite the hopping railroad town for quite a while. The streets today are shadows of their former bustling selves.

It may take a while to get everything in. I am hand building, or at least attempting to, all of the structures. I have been taking pictures and doing a lot of research on technique and materials. I have been taking quite a few pictures of the structures in town and getting pictures from a few different people who have a long history living here.



The first structures are just to see if I can get the scale correct. As I get more accomplished it will be interesting, at least to me, to see how sophisticated the layout develops. If nothing else, I will have a couple of nice trains to run around the Christmas trees each year ;-)