A long journey covering a short distance.

An interest in trains of old and actually getting to travel behind steam locos in New Zealand as a junior (long night trips to Whangarei-North and locals from Penrose to Auckland city on bright Summer days) created a desire to see models doing it too.

Of course coming from a working class family it wasn't easy and when I eventually started work myself, well lets just say 1970's N Scale wasn't quite the bargain operationally and cheap enough for me to continue.