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Guys,Thanks for the warm welcome.  I finished reading this thread earlier today (well, I may have more or less skimmed the last few pages!), and am at once impressed by the knowledge and dedication to the hobby displayed by you guys here, and also at the same time a bit intimidated by it.  Some of you have fantastic realism and detail in your layouts, and the painstaking detail and attention are evident in your discussions and photos.It's also made me think about why I want to get (back) into model railroading.  I like watching trains run.  As simple as that.   It satisfies a sense of mechanical curiosity and it's so gosh darn neat watching the little mechanical marvels chug along, to and fro, obeying all commands.  However, I don't have the desire to recreate a specific era or setting in history like many of you seem to.  Maybe that will change in time, but maybe not.  A lot of you seem to have grown up around rail or have had family members who worked on railways.  The extent of my involvement with rail growing up is hurrying to catch the British Railways train home after school and all too often missing it.  Not exactly pleasant memories!   So, I'd be perfectly happy to set up a track layout, mix and match engines and cars based on what I think looks "good," and let them have at it.  Historical accuracy isn't exactly a factor for me right now.  There's got to be people like me, for whom the enjoyment of the act of controlling a train or two and running it around the track is what they're in the hobby for.   I'm not exactly a newcomer to some aspects of this hobby.  My main hobby right now is 25-35mm miniatures modeling, and before that was military model buidling (mainly 1/35 armor).  I've got a pretty nice hobby cubbyhole setup (used to have my own office/hobby room, but my son--the ingrate!--evicted me when he was born), where I can build stuff and paint and generally make a mess without needing to clean up every night.  Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of HirstArts cast-your-own buildings, too, for those of you who might be familiar with them.Anyway, thanks for the kind words of welcome.  I'll try to post some pictures of my hobby area soon.
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