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Not so much to tell, really. I grew up in Washington (GN country), spent a bit of time around Portland's Union Station, and I'm old enough to remember all the SP&S Pullman-green heavyweights in "reserve" just south of the Broadway Bridge.My father was a serious model railroader, and he got me hooked on it before I was old enough to peer over the top of a layout table. I was a model railroader until I was married. He was in the Marines; so, we moved around quite a lot; and what with that, two children, and various careers, there wasn't much time for hobbies. My son and I did piddle around with N-scale, but railroading didn't take with him and I couldn't warm up to those itty bitty little trains (I'm an HO-Scale gal).About three years ago, I finally settled in Nebraska, bought a house and spent some serious time remodeling (it's good to be handy). With that done, and working from home, I found I had enough time on my hands for a hobby. Naturally, I started thinking about railroad layouts again, and here I am. Regrettably, management decided to promote me and I can't work from home; so, I'm an apartment-dweller probably until I retire in about ten years. My house is about a hundred miles distant. I don't like it, but it's still close enough to go there on weekends.Layout-wise, I'm very much in the planning phase - trying to overcome the challenge of constructing my layout modularly. I'm prototyping 1955 Great Northern passenger/freight operations in a fictionalized Rocky Mountain setting.Besides model railroading, I write short stories, poems, and novels. The bulk of my work appears under the pen name "Janet P. Hildreth" in a variety of U.S. and European literary magazines (alas, I may occasionally end a post with "Janet." I'm not trying to be sneaky). I'm currently working on a romance set in 1931. Backdrop for the book is The Empire Builder, and the story climaxes with the May 27, 1931, destruction of the train by a tornado. I've done a ton of research for the book, including riding much of the route between Portland and Chicago via Amtrak. I rode the same route on the real Empire Builder as a little girl, but that was obviously a while ago. The research was a labor of love.Okay, well, I s'pose that's more than anyone wanted to know. I'm terribly glad to have found this forum, and I look forward to the benefit of your knowledge and friendship.Lynda
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