I've had a bit of a rough time lately. Medical issues, financial troubles and seemingly nothing but bad news on the tv. It was all adding up and dampening my holiday mood more than usual.
But what I got in today's mail stole my troubles away and turned me into a kid again! What was it that had this magic power? The February 2013 issue of CTT with a pic of one of my layouts in the Photo Album! After I got done dancing around and acting like a cheerleader, I finally read the caption next to the phot and smiled wider and wider! The magazine arriving with the late mail on Christmas eve was just the icing on the gingerbread cookie! (mmmmmm....gingerbread) So I just wanted to say thank you for including me and let you all know how much it meant to me and how far it lifted my spirits!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a great night filled with toy train dreams!
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
congrats there no better feeling than getting something published in our favorite magazine I know when they printed my tip in Oct issue I was tickled.
You do such great work on your layout we all love your work
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Becky,
There are few I can think of who are more deserving to have their work published in CTT!!! All the items you have shown us here on the forum are wonderful and whimsical in their own way, and you truly exhibit the joy that can be found in toy trains. Congratulations and Merry Christmas to you.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
This I've got to see! Looks like I'll be raiding the hobby shop this weekend!
Congratulations!
Congrats Becky. Thought that was your stuff. When I get around to posting a pic or two on our North Pole diorama, you'll see some of your influences. Making trains fun again...that's your gift.
Great job. Merry Christmas
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Congratulations Becky! Enjoyed the photo along with the caption. Have a Merry Christmas. Bo
Congratulations Becky!! Keep on dancing with the joy of a child on Christmas!
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Big Cheer for Becky. Hope you have a great Christmas.
Thanks CTT.
Chuck
That is so freaking cool! Congrats!
Congratulations Becky!
I always enjoy seeing your contributions here on the forum. Your threads on the modeling work that you do are inspiring. I appreciate your ability to capture the joy of playing with toy trains in a very limited space. Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us. I'm glad that CTT was willing to share your talents with those folks who haven't discovered the online forums yet. Please keep up the great work and continue to share it with us.
And, from all of us here on the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines to all of our friends in the online toy train community
Merry Christmas
The Northwoods Flyer Collection
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Becky or should we call you Rebecca now?
I am still waiting for them to do a full article on you work because everything you do is inspiring to me. A great shot.
Great job.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Thanks guys!
If everything goes well, you will see more in the December 2013 issue of CTT!
Now that all of my Christmas projects are finally done and delivered, I can settle in to making a serious effort over the next 2 weeks to get magazine quality (crossing fingers) photos of the Disneyland layout. The prewar and postwar layouts can stay up till July if need be but mom's gonna want her living room back by the middle of January! So I'll have to focus on that layout first.
It's as tough as I thought it would be too. Especially since I only have some hinky dinky lights I can move around and little knowledge of how my camera works. I have come to realize that what looks great on the little display screen on the back of my Fuji FinePix often falls flat on a larger computer monitor. And I would assume that if it looks boring on a computer monitor it would look just as boring on a printed page. So maybe 2 out of a hundred fall into the category of what I'd even consider submitting to Roger for consideration. But, I've got time!
Thanks again for all the encouragement! It means a lot!
Congratulations Becky!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!
John
Congrats Becky. Thought about you earlier while I was glued to the TV watching the marathon of A Christmas Story because I remember you said you are near the house used for the exterior shots in the movie.
Becky, as I said I would I did the hobby shop raid today, picked up February's CTT and went straight to page 19. Well done, well done indeed! Wonderful job!
And a belated Merry Christmas and premature Happy New Year to you and your family!
Wayne
Great job Becky
. I'm looking forward to the December issue
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
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