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When I was about 4, my dad had a big Lionel layout. I too could only watch, not touch. Then when I was about 9, dad bought me an LGB starter kit. I got into model railroading, and tried my first "Garden layout." As I got older, dad and I built an indoor LGB layout (WAY too big for the small 10 x 4 we built.) I kinda went my own way in the hobby, and started a huge HO layout when I was 17. My cousin and I spent days at a time building this ugly, oversized, un-planned layout. We laid track and ran trains, only to tear out whole sections (with a chain saw at some points.) Looking back, we learned more about model railroading than we could have imagined. Adulthood came, time became non-existent, and four years went by with no layout at all. Long story short... a couple of false starts, and one bad design later, I have now built a true professional layout, benchwork up. This one is modular, so when I move, it can travel with me intact. Model railroading is my therapy, my art, and my love. My wife can sit for hours and read while we watch some movie for the umpteenth time, while I work on a project, or run the trains. It keeps our sanity, and is a source of mutual pride.
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