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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves
« on: December 30, 2016, 09:21:35 PM »
Newest kid here -- first visited Wiscasset in the summer of 1963 shortly after my 16th birthday - -I drove across the bridge on the way to a few weeks of work at a Boy Scout camp. I have been a scale model railroader for almost 50 years and a narrow gauger modeler since the early 1970s - of course there is a picture of me on line taken in front of a Sumpter Valley 3 foot gauge box car in the summer of 1954. I took the family to Edaville a couple of times in the late 1980s and visited a couple of more times when I was in Massachusetts on business.
Over the years I collected most of the books on the two footers but was always modeling western narrow gauge mining and logging. Retirement in 2014 and a move to the Delaware shore has led to the desire to model something else -- either an Appalachian coal mining operation or a Maine two footer in On30. Visited Wiscasset and Bob Bennett in South China last summer with my wife and the Maine two footers won out -- after 47 years of marriage, if the boss likes something I like it too! Layout room in the garage has been completed and construction supplies laid in.
Plan to join the museum this coming year and visit/work in the summer -- a son and grandaughter in Boston are a good excuse for trips to Maine.
Look forward to meeting many of you as time goes by.
Bill Uffelman
Ocen View DE
Over the years I collected most of the books on the two footers but was always modeling western narrow gauge mining and logging. Retirement in 2014 and a move to the Delaware shore has led to the desire to model something else -- either an Appalachian coal mining operation or a Maine two footer in On30. Visited Wiscasset and Bob Bennett in South China last summer with my wife and the Maine two footers won out -- after 47 years of marriage, if the boss likes something I like it too! Layout room in the garage has been completed and construction supplies laid in.
Plan to join the museum this coming year and visit/work in the summer -- a son and grandaughter in Boston are a good excuse for trips to Maine.
Look forward to meeting many of you as time goes by.
Bill Uffelman
Ocen View DE