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All is quiet at 5AM, except for a couple of rumbles of thunder, in the northwest Georgia foothills just down the Zell Miller highway and I 575 from Tom Watkins. He is so correct in that the north Georgia mountains are beautiful, and I think, one of the best kept secrets in places to visit. I've lived all over the USA due to my prior semi- conductor career, (and as a kid, due to my Dad's job changes)- NYC, upstate NY, Connecticut, New Joisey, Dallas, both coasts of Florida plus Mickey Mouse's Kingdom, Silicon Valley and Orange County, California, Raleigh, NC and now where we just moved earlier this year. We are now residing where my wife and I wished we had moved years ago. It is so good to see the smiles on my wife's face every weekend when we discover something else to do, or a neat place to visit, or just meet really genuine folks, both locals and transplants as we are. It's good to call Georgia home, and this is from a Yankee family going all the way back to 1660 in Massachusetts, and later on in New York State, until my generation ! I'm within earshot of the Georgia Northeastern RR, although it's rare to see or hear more than one or two diesel horns per day, but it is a perfect inspiration for a modern shortline (you'd have to fudge on the traffic volume to heighten the operations potential - like a fast clock of a week every 4 hours. . .It is also perfect for the late '40s/early '50s I'm modeling - it was an L&N line back then - a less heavily traveled alternative to the more or less parallel L&N /NC&StL Atlanta-Knoxville Division. But less than thirty minutes away I can catch heavy rail traffic on both the CSX and NS on their traffic from Tennessee (and points north) to Atlanta, and traveling just a bit further either East or South, a whole bunch more railroading is available for the railfan, in and around Atlanta. We've got the Civil War & Locomotive Museum in Kennesaw just south of me, and the Southeastern Rail Museum less than an hour away. And we have LHSs everywhere. Contrary to the gloom and doom re: the current state of model railroading and railroading in general, so much the topics of hysteria on the Forum these days, the hobby is alive and well in the Atlanta area. Ed - you'll thoroughly enjoy the narrow gauge in the Rockies. Awhile back, my son (9 yrs old at the time) and I visited the "Narrow Gauge Circle" in Colorado and visited narrow gauge sites in Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak, Georgetown, Boulder, up to Marshall's Pass, Ophir, Red Mountain, Silveron, Durango, and most all of the other sites, except the Cumbres & Toltec. It was an awesome trip for just a dad and his young son. The drive from Ophir to Durango thru Silverton is a white knuckler esp if you're going southbound, because you hug the outside edge of the precipitous drop-offs most of the way, until you start heading downhill to Durango. It was a forever memorable experience for both of us. Got a lot done today, to be followed by more of the same tomorrow (actually later today), and for the foreseeable future, as we remodel, re-landscape, build my shop for my at home furniture business, the model railroad room, and now my wife wants me to make us new furniture and build a library room. . .Thank God for coffee ! Speaking of which, I've already had so much I haven't been to sleep yet, and I have to put on the morning coffee in less than two hours. One of my cats is dancing across the keyboard now and wants his breakfast, so it's time to say goodnite, so Goodnite. . . BILL
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