I was introduced to trains at 12 years of age. It was Christmas morning  (1962) and I woke up to a train running around the Christmas tree. It was a Lionel US-44 rocket launching engine (painted blue) with an exploding boxcar, ICBM rocket flatcar, helicopter carrier, Red Cross boxcar and caboose. train set. Boy was I excited! Little did I know this was to quickly expand into a 22 by 12 foot table layout. 

It turned out that my step-father had more interest in the train than I did and as the first tracks were being laid I was instructed that, "No one is to play with the trains unless I am present." The trains weren't mine but his: but that didn't kill my enthusiasm for trains. 

As retirement approached  my love for trains resurfaced and I built 2 HO scale layouts. My first was  5' X 10"  and the second was 6' X 13' when expanded. (pictures to follow.) 

Click to see my Hiawatha Table    

Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Table 

I have several projects that I have posted to YouTube and shared with the public. Click the underlined LINK to open a project for viewing 

  Signals         ---- Introduction to speed and routing signals

  JMRI Intro    ---- Introduction to JMRI DecoderPro

  Hiawatha       ---- Using JMRI to build custom signals for my Hiawatha layout

  Serial RFID     ---- This is a hardware and software system I developed for using radio frequency identification tags (RFID) for tracking rolling stock.

  Mqtt RFID        ---- My second version for tracking rolling stock. It eliminates the serial port