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John Matthews:
I am Johnny Matthews and will go by PJ (for Papa Johnny) which is what my grands call me.
I live in West Texas not far from the oilfields. My railroad is a protofreelance of what I see in my area. San Angelo is in west central Texas. We have mesas and brush land and farming. UP runs east/west through my home town 75 miles north at Colorado City, Texas. BNSF runs down from the plains of New Mexico through Lubbock and south to Houston through San Angelo Junction east of where I live. MOPAC ran east/west through my home town before being acquired by UP in the late seventies. Santa Fe and ATSF ran on a branch RR through San Angelo in the 1920's through 1960's. The South Orient (originally the Kansas City Mexico Pacific RR) operated through here in the past. Today, the branch from Ft. Worth to San Angelo is called the Texas Pacifico Transportation System. So, I model MOPAC, ATSF, UP, BNSF, Ft. Worth and Western, Texas and Pacific, and South Orient RR's. I call the rail road the Petro Texas and Western because of the oilfields in our area of West Texas.
Alan:
Papa Johnny, good to see another modeler using a fictitious name for an amalgamation of real railroads. Mine is the same. My LK&O railroad is actually little pieces of the AC&Y, GT, and WM all rolled into one. Prototype railroading under a freelance name. Unlike yours however, my three railroads did not interchange with each other in the real world. In fact they were hundreds of miles from each other. On my layout they are linked together sequentially to form a single railroad.
jjwdadof4:
Hi my name is Joshua White I just ordered my railpro system I model HO not after any particular theme or era I'm still green behind the ears just got some track up after being packed away for 20+ years so any help or hints are more than welcome I will probably get on here quite a bit to get some help, I'm in the Kansas City area so if there are any other railpro users around the area I would like to get together and form a new friendship
Thanks,
Josh
nodcc4me:
Welcome to the group, Josh. Have fun with RailPro. :)
TJMac:
Hello Everyone,
This is Tom McMahon. I've been in and out of model railroading for 35 years. Started in HO and N, then to modern G. Had to sell all the large scale to make room for two beautiful little girls who are now 12 and 9. Have been following RailPro and it's progress for three or four years. Was super excited when I saw the large scale modules and decided to get back into 'it'......2 rail O scale this time. Large enough for my less-than-perfect vision, and small enough to still build something awesome indoors.
Professionally speaking, I've been in various roles of product development for 20+ years - design, 3D modeling, engineering and prototyping (I was working with 3D printers before it was cool). This translates extremely well to my hobbies and I'm constantly creating 'stuff'.
I'm here for information, and hopefully to add to conversations....share what knowledge I do have :o.
Thank you,
Tom
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