September 17th, 2012

When I was 7 or 8 years old (Yes, they had electricity way back then) my father set up a circle of tracks and an American Flyer electric train set around our Christmas Tree.
I was (and have been since) fascinated by model trains, and it has long been a dream of mine to set up a realistic model train layout.
Late in September 2011, about 2 months before my 69th birthday, I decided that I had waited long enough, and with the blessing of my fantastic wife I cleared a 14 X 9 foot area in my basement.
By October 10th the "train room" had been constructed so I went to Train World here in Brooklyn and purchased
a load of track, a locomotive, a power supply and a bunch of other goodies and began to build.
There's still a long way to go, but on January 13th, about 3 months after I began, I finished the following video and uploaded it to YouTube.
It's in High Def, so maximize the screen once it starts.  

Click this link  to see the YouTube Video.    I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I have enjoyed making it to this point.

This latest update is being done on February 17th 2011. I now have a total of 6 videos on my page (Paulietree1) at www.youtube.com Two are about a replica I made of my store on McDonald Avenue. The second one is 34 seconds longer and includes improvements I made after the first video was posted, so you might want to select that one (7 minutes, 7 seconds.) Both are titled "Building Bonsai of Brooklyn in H.O. Scale."
Two others are about A)- An elevated N.Y.C. Subway line I added to my layout, and
B)-About the station & platforms I built. The "F" Train runs from Queens through Manhattan, into Brooklyn (underground for the first few miles) and then becomes an elevated line and runs right down McDonald Avenue, the location of my nursery. Once my store was there, the subway was the inevitable next step, so I couldn't help myself.
With the coming of spring right around the corner, I suspect there won't be any major work done until at least summer, but who knows?

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