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It's been a long time since I've posted anything on the internet as a newbie, so y'all forgive me, as I am just starting out. <br /> <br />Had a great train layout as a kid, dad did it all, all O-scale, and have very fond memories of that. Recently was dragged to a train show by a friend, and started thinking about slowing getting back into the hobby. <br /> <br />I've been a scale modeler for years, mostly aircraft, so my modeling skills are very high, so I'm quite experienced in a similar hobby. But being experienced in that hobby has led me to a few basic quesitons... <br /> <br />1) What are the big model railroading sites (non-commercial) - for scale modeling there are places like Hyperscale, ARC, missing-lynx, etc. I'm assuming that there are analogs for model railroading? Obviously this site is a good starting point. <br /> <br />2) What are the big model railroading retailers? When we were all kids, there were hobby shops on every corner, in every small town. But now, they're a dying breed (MOST unfortunate). Again, where scale modeling has Squadron, Great Models and similar, I'm assuming there are a similar set of analogs. <br /> <br />3) Research is something that I enjoy most, and while I can tell you all about the development of the P-47, I couldn't tell you the first thing about what railroads run now, ran then, ran where... Obviously, I'll start googling a lot of this, but I'm guessing there are publications, books, whole libraries on this stuff. For example, how do I learn what lines ran where, and when? <br /> <br />Let me ask it a different way, since this is the crux of where my collection and maybe layout will start... <br /> <br />Trains are largely a nostalgia thing for a lot of us, I grew in southern Michigan, and saw trains all the time, I remember a little about what ran there, but not much. Since a big piece of this is nostalgia, one of the things that I'd like to do is to put together some trains and maybe even layout locations based on what I would have seen as kid - 1970s in south-central Michigan - Flint, Ann Arbor, Fenton, and similar areas. Surely there are likely whole sites on this topic, books, videos, and simlar? <br /> <br />I think I'll stop there, this is obviously a slow learning process, and whole new world to learn. <br /> <br />Thanks for humoring my basic questions, who knows where this may go? <br /> <br />All the best, <br /> <br />Paul
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