Today is the day! Or, really yesterday was the day, the day
we ordered it. So today I sit here, obsessively refreshing my tracking
information. Because today the first train for my Holiday Line Express train
set will ship and I will embark on a project I’ve been planning and dreaming
about for too many years to admit on the internet. (Double digits, AH!)
I feel like a freshly engaged woman thinking about all the
plans and dreams of a wedding planned as a child and how to make that a
reality. Only this is so much cooler because it’s my train set and all the
family doesn’t get a say. Well….with the possible exception of my two guys.
To start, I’ve scaled down to N scale. I had once pondered
doing this at HO, but changed my mind (This accounts for the years). I’ve found
the train of my dreams, the Bachmann Royal Blue; fancy enough to service holidays
but not hokey or one holiday centric. So, it’s time to get going.
This blog is a place for me to document this. It’s also a
place for me to play with my photography and my train set. What you will find
here is hopefully beautiful pictures of my train set as I learn, experiment,
and make it grow; My over thinking through the process of making it grow; and
my love of trains. What you probably aren’t going to get is a whole lot of
technical detail, rigid adherence to reality, and tight train scheduling. Those
things awe me, but they aren’t my thing.
This train is fantasy and fun…and probably frustration and
hilarity. I’m assuming I’m going to have to decorate most of the stuff in the
model. I know there is much more holidays represented in tiny worlds now, but a
lot of the stuff has been in my head for a long time. The frustrating and funny
part about that is that I’m a klutz at model making.
So come with me, as I drive my family batty and make a mess
of model trains.
