Model Railroading > santafedan?

His last post was about 2 months ago. He is getting up there in his years and was getting rid of his public display layout that he took out for Christmas at a local bank every year. Dan has a large home Santa Fe layout. Did he just drop Trainorders?  Anyone know if he is OK? He lives in Southern Indiana.

Victor Baird

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/25 13:12 by wabash2800.

I got private message back, so he is still a member and doing OK. This is what he had to say:

Vic, I am still around.  I had some back surgery and I has taken a long time to get back to form. I have been writing for a blog in England for the past 18 months.  An entirely new and different group.  A lot of 4x8 layouts crammed with details and track.  Good work often just cluttered.  They have little room for anything else.
I also gave up the ILS presidency..!0 years of putting cats in a box is enough.
Thanks for asking."

Victor Baird
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/25 14:55 by wabash2800.

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> I got private message back, so he is still a
> member and doing OK. This is what he had to say:
>
> Vic, I am still around.  I had some back surgery
> and I has taken a long time to get back to form. I
> have been writing for a blog in England for the
> past 18 months.  An entirely new and different
> group.  A lot of 4x8 layouts crammed with details
> and track.  Good work often just cluttered. 
> They have little room for anything else.
> I also gave up the ILS presidency..!0 years of
> putting cats in a box is enough.
> Thanks for asking."
>
> Victor Baird

True what you say about England and space.  Generally space is much less than in the US.  They have to be creative with the space they have. The irony is that model railroading is much more popular in England per capita.  My wife is from northern England and when we were over we visited a club that had a pretty large space in the attic of an industrial building where there were probalby 5 or 6 modest sized layouts, including a G scale, several HO and most were American stylie trains.  We also visited a guy who used to post at the Model Railroader magazine forums - he lived in Sunderland which was in the general area of that club.  He actually had a basement - not a pretty basement but he had space where he had a couple layouts.  One of them was the Virginian which was featured in Model Railroader magazine.

Jim Fitch

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> wabash2800 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I got private message back, so he is still a
> > member and doing OK. This is what he had to
> say:
> >
> > Vic, I am still around.  I had some back
> surgery
> > and I has taken a long time to get back to form.
> I
> > have been writing for a blog in England for the
> > past 18 months.  An entirely new and different
> > group.  A lot of 4x8 layouts crammed with
> details
> > and track.  Good work often just cluttered. 
> > They have little room for anything else.
> > I also gave up the ILS presidency..!0 years of
> > putting cats in a box is enough.
> > Thanks for asking."
> >
> > Victor Baird
>
> True what you say about England and space. 
> Generally space is much less than in the US. 
> They have to be creative with the space they have.
> The irony is that model railroading is much more
> popular in England per ca pita.  My wife is from
> northern England and when we were over we visited
> a club that had a pretty large space in the attic
> of an industrial building where there were
> probably 5 or 6 modest sized layouts, including a
> G scale, several HO and most were American stylie
> trains.  We also visited a guy who used to post
> at the Model Railroader magazine forums - he lived
> in Sunderland which was in the general area of
> that club.  He actually had a basement - not a
> pretty basement but he had space where he had a
> couple layouts.  One of them was the Virginian
> which was featured in Model Railroader magazine.
>
> Jim Fitch

The figures I once read were there are one in a hundred Amerikan railfans to one in ten UK "train enthusiast." Figures, the UK invented trains as the world has come to known them--200 hundred years ago come September 27, 2025. Sadly this same year King Charlie has decided to dump the Royal Train in 2027.