After a lot of soul-searching, I've concluded that health issues require me to abandon my large scale RRing and to restrict my model RRing to an indoor layout, for which the largest scale I can manage in the available space is O-scale. I have thoroughly enjoyed the discussions and chats on MLS and take my leave with many fond memories.

 

Best wishes to you all.

 

Mark

 

sniff......  Sorry to see you go, Mark......  Best of everything...

 

However, you could still check in now and then just to see what's happening with the big trains.

Thanks for all the good words and ideas. I pretty well exhausted all the ideas for remaining outdoors. Since my interests exclude narrow gauge, all the GnX ideas fall on disinterested eyes 'n ears. Doing mainline passenger operations in O-scale will, at the outset, limit me to shorty (i.e. 60-ft) cars. That same space would permit longer cars, but only as a simple loop on a second level. I want to get the first level done before even thinking about that.

 

Meanwhile I have started my inventory (this could take many weeks to complete), and have told members of the Central Oklahoma Garden Railroad Society (I sitll think "society" is pretentious) that I will give them first crack at track and structures. What I don't sell locally will go up on eBay.

 

And yes, I will be dropping in from tim to time to see what people in the real world are doing.

Allen, I joined your forum, but I'm still waiting for formal acceptance (hint).

 

I'm also looking into your magazine.

 

Mark