congrats Tony. Eight grandkids and two greats. Boy I am getting old. The nice thing is you can spoil them and the send them home for the parents to deal with.
travelling in our motorhome
prospecting/rockhounding/lapidary
playing guitar and harmonica
photography
and my latest. I joined a civil war re-enacters group and am going train to be certified to be on the cannon crew.
Since I live in Nevada I wanted something that was related to our state. About two hours east of me is Austin.
This was and old mining community along highway 50. There was a railroad that ran from there to the Southern Pacific
main line in Battle Mountain. This was the Nevada Central. It...
I was also going to say use it as a forced perspective. I have several N scale buildings back in a canyon on my HO layout. They look good and give a feeling of more depth to the lauout.
City of new orleans is a great song on of my favorite songs to play when I have the guitar out.
A little known song called railroad line by the gibson brothers is really good. I would post a link but honestly, I don't know how. it's on you tube though.