Backwoods NE in Florida

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The officers of the North Coast Narrow Guage Railroad went into executive session over the weekend,and by unanimous boisterous approval,  after several rounds of tequila and jelly shots, sends their absolute encouragement to go light up the boilers and crack the throttle open to go full speed ahead ion plans for the narrow gauge portion of your empire!

( They would have encouraged you more, but in an untimely twist of fate, they ran out of tequila, and a few wives showed up with rolling pins to drag their sorry butts home)

Fifth Dave to the right.

Dave, it's ALL narrow gauge - now that the N scale roundy has been excised...HOn30 and HOn3...I've been narrow minded for decades. Frary & Hayden hit me hard in my formative years, even though I watched them (and Furlow and Olson) in the pages of MR like they were pro athletes. It oddly never occurred to me that I could do what they were doing until much more recently.

[Dave Buchholz]

I was the of the same mind of the same people. To this day. I still have the Model Railroad magazine articles that they were featured in.

Additionally, when I was in the USAF in the early 70s, in San Antonio, there was a model railroad above the bowling alley. We added a narrow gauge line to the center section.

 Three of the guys went on to hold NMRA clinics, and one still runs an online academy

So I have been blessed to be around, and influenced by some people with tremendous talent. Not that much rubbed off on me, but I'm thankful none the less.