You have to begin somewhere

So a Blog eh, about my model rail layouts and experiences, i find the first post the hardest to write.  So i will say abit about me and what has brought me to write this.

I have been into trains and railways for as long as I can remember.

My dad was a soldier in the Army, The Royal Scots,  when I was only a few days old, and he was on the train coming down from Inverness to Edinburgh to see me in Hospital, he won some money playing cards, So in he walked with a Hornby train set and the first talking action man.  The loop of track was put on a board, and a paper mache hill was made.

When I was 10 my grandad bought me the Mallard Hornby steam train from Harburn hobbies in Edinburgh.  I also had just enough birthday money to buy the Green Knight from Bachmann, and started to put a track plan down in my mum and dads garage, my first layout, but due to moving it never got past the very basic loop.

It was a long time before i started to model again, i joined a local model club and built layouts with them.  The club looked more into the continental railroads, American, German, Japanese and everything else you can imagine. So i saw alot more that was on offer.

Right now i have collected a small amount of HO stock, Soo Line, UP and CN most are chipped and were used on club layouts.  I also have a large stock on Japanese N Gauge Loco's, Units, Buildings and Scenery.

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So to this project,  

The above photo shows my garden just now, the shed is 10 foot by 10 foot, this will be removed and the area concrete.

Over the summer i plan to build a workshop in the back garden, it should be in the region of 16 foot by about 12 foot.  I had plans to build a static HO American layout, but i have scrapped that and decided to use it as a workshop to build smaller exhibition layouts, which i can take to shows around the UK and into Europe.

The first layout i am going to be building will be a small On30 4 foot by 4 foot, Called Lewis Lakes Railroad, but i will move onto that.