U Scale dummy U

[FJ and G]

That's me.

I've been into O scale for so long that the other scales seem foreign to me. Not that I don't have my hands full already with time and money invested.

But it's fun to check in now and then and see what others are up to.

The most foreign has to be the garden girls and boys. They not only talk about clearing wilderness stuff like branches and leaves off their tracks, or flooded trestles, they also talk about tiny garden plants and ponds and streams that have real water. Very foreign and I have no knowledge about the coupler issues they face and the different styles of track and stuff like that.

The second most foreign stuff is the N and Z scale. I have no idea how N scalers have the time and patience to lay their own track, super detail their trains and build accessories.

The 'n3 and n2 or n30 crowd is another special group that models very interesting but different equipment like the galloping geese and spindly trestles; definitely different than standard.

If we could live to be as old as Methusala, then, i would spend 100 years on each scale and gauge; assuming I had a good paying job.

But for now, life and money is short, so I will be content to just peek in from time to time to see how my fellow modelers are doing.

Dave Vergun