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North River Railway a small model railroad in Coventry, CT (NMRA, NER, Nutmeg Division)
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I have been modeling since I was a teenager, first with airplanes, then boats, and then trains. My first experience was the standard Lionel "O" gauge around the Christmas tree, moved to a spare room after Christmas.
My first layout was on the reverse side of a ping-pong table and powered by a car battery. Tin strips passed current under the roadbed to a control panel fastened inside the track loop and wires ran under a grass mat to switches and accessories. Everything went fine until the strips accidentally touched and completely melted the wires, filling the basement with smoke. Equipment was mostly Athern and Varney for rolling stock and Revel or Faller for structures.
We moved to Connecticut and I my dad helped build my first real layout. Trackwork was mostly flex-track and as a teen-ager I managed to build my first transistor throttle and a relay-controlled block system with signals. By the time I went off to college I had started building wooden kits including several of the Ambroid "1 of 5000" series. There were a number of us in a club under the guidance of a mentor who drove us to Hartford to buy parts and to show us how to do weathering as well as scale operation of trains. At school I continued to build models in my dorm room. Soon after I married, moved to an apartment and built a small switching layout. This was my first attempt at hand laying track, and while it didn't look like much it served as a prototype for future trackwork construction.
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