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I to like most people got started in the hobby by my father. who in turn got start by my grandfather. my grandfather had a small lionel train he could run around the tree at christmas. When my dad and his brother started their families they both had a model railroad at christmas. <br />My dad let me run the layout whenever I wanted. I had the layout in the basement for a couple years until we ran out tof space and had to put it up for a couple years. What got me back into the hobby was this year my sister moved to mass. from our hometown in ohio and would come back to town via amtrak. This about the time my grandpa got real sick and I helped care for him and my grandma during the day. I decided to bring out train again. To help cheer up my grandpa during his failing health I would describe my progess to him. Always made him smile. This christmas after 6 months of caring for him, he passed away in the middle of the night. That night I ran trains until morning and realized the bests way to remember him was to always have a model train. My father has watched my progress and said that this is what made these difficult times more bearable. Being able to take my dads old cars fix the problems and show him the finished weathered product is one of the greatest feelings you can have. It has also brought me and my father together and we attend train shows and layouts whenever one comes to town. To me it's more than justs a hobby for me it's a memorial and that is why I named my yard the DM yard after my father and my grandpa, Dan and Don Miller <br />Andy
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