About Me

I am Paul Deis. Like many others my first exposure to trains was my fathers Lionel. It was set up in the bedroom I shared with my brothers. When I was 16 I bought an “N” Scale train set for my nephew for Christmas. I set it up on the dining room table to make sure it worked. He never got that train set but I was hooked. I joined the New York Society of Model Engineers for a short time. I then joined the service and built a few “N” scale layouts as I moved around the country. After the service I settled in California and joined an “HO” modular group, the San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Club since renamed the San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Association. Since the club was HO and I had N, I sold my N and changed to HO. I now belong to a loose knit group called the Thursday Night Boomers. As the name implies we spend our Thursday nights working on each others railroads. I have since built a large HO layout the The Los Osos Valley Railroad (LOVRR), depicting the SP Coast Line from San Luis Obispo to King City, CA as it was in 1949. That layout was torn out for a move. It will be rise from the trash pile once again in my new home. See our HO Railroad Pages While I was building the LOVRR I bought my youngest daughter a G scale Thomas The Tank Engine Set. It worked. She was hooked on trains and built up her G Scale collection over the years. She has since moved onto other interests and I am the proud owner of some of her former equipment. It is the base from which the new Garden Railroad was born. We have finished the first phase of track building and have started on the second phase.