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boys (seven and four years old) were able to help. They helped
with photography, airbrushing, weathering chalk powders on
the trucks, and gluing the styrene pieces together for the cou-
pler mounting pads. This provided great bonding time with
them, and maybe they’ll stay bitten by the model railroad bug
for life. Now I look forward to having their help on building the
garden railway. We’ll also be installing a QSI Titan Magnum
decoder in a USA SD40-2. The boys (and I) are excited to hear
the engine rumbling down the tracks.
53. The finished caboose.
Extended-vision caboose - 22
Eric Warhol lives in Becker, MN
with his wife, Joni. Life is busy
raising three children, Matthew
(7), Nathan (4), and Katherine
(9 months). When not busy
with parenting and school or
sport activities, Eric tries to
squeeze in a few minutes of
model railroading.
As a young child, Eric was
bitten by the train bug when
his father brought home a
Lionel set. He set up the Lionel
trains, and was hooked. He remembers being at Grandma
and Grandpa’s, and waking up in the middle of the night to
run outside to the porch and watch a Soo Line train pass by
less than half a block away. Eric has modeled HO scale for
over 25 years, but has recently gotten into garden railroading.
His dream is to have a garden railroad on some acreage he
and Joni own.
MRH-Nov 2014
