Well, the summer is ending, and as usual I have hopes and dreams but absolutely nothing accomplished!

Just a brief sharing of a personal history,  i was lost in a memory about our family vacations, and the happy (and bittersweet) reminiscences of my childhood.  From the time of my youth our family drove from Buffalo to Ocean City, Maryland and it occurs to me that along with the great memories of my family and weeks in the sun and fun, these trips just reinforced my train mania.....We would drive every year via route 15 through Pennsylvania,  overnight as the heat was less oppressive and the traffic lighter.  My mother worked overnights, so she was used to being awake at

I had a chance to visit Al Carter and his beautiful home in my hometown. He has a dedicated bonus room upstairs for his Tabooma County Railroad where structures and scale vehicles are the star characters. The layout is in a decent size room of about 12’ x 20’, clearly designed for operation and has a lot going on. The photos tell the rest of the story!

Neil Erickson