So, the last time I'd every driven spikes, or soldered a throttle (Onboard), or aimed a spitting Badger airbrush at rolling stock, was before my USAF change of station move from K.I. Siberia, er, K.I. Sawyer AFB in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to Griffiss AFB in Rome, NY, right in the middle of that unpleasantness called "Desert Storm". 1991.   Fast forward some 28 years and a dozen optician visits later, here I sit at a workbench again.

I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout. 

Caption: I'm sure glad I don't have to pay to clean up this mess.

NINE YEARS! The Baboon had the job for NINE YEARS!