Computer backdrops - 14
Bill Geiger grew up in Fridley, MN
within eyeshot of the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern Railway
mainlines north of Minneapolis.
He was introduced to model
railroading by his grandfather and
dad when he was six years old, and
continued to build layouts during
his teens. Bill and his girlfriend Kim
– now wife of thirty years – spent
weekends driving around Minnesota
photographing equipment and structures in the post-BN
merger era.
Moving to San Diego, CA, Bill took a long hiatus from model
railroading, until he ran across an old Linn Westcott article
about suspending a model railroad from the garage ceiling on
cables, hoisting it to make room for autos. In 2002 Bill started
building his suspended, double-sided, triple deck layout in
the garage. The shelf design features four 15’-long scenes of
the Great Northern between Havre and Great Falls Montana.
Bill and Kim have raised two boys, and continue to live in San
Diego. He occasionally blogs about his railroading project at
MRH-Jul 2014
