@Randy Harrison posted:Pat:
I have seen your layout many times and have never been disappointed. When I walk into your train room, the enormity of your mountain, your lake at the bottom of a rocky gorge, urban scene on the hill opposite the mountain as well as downtown Patsburg always take my breath away. The colors in your scenery are spectacular! The realism of your track-side clutter shows that you know prototype railroading very well. Bravo on a great train layout!!!!
Randy - thank you for all these kind words!
You were a huge help to me when I was constructing the layout ... hence my naming the mountain, Mt. Randolph, after you. It took a team to build the FSJR and each member of the team is a Vice President of Something or Other ... LOL! I'm grateful to my brother Chris ( VP of Benchwork Construction ) , You and your son Chris ( VPs of Electrical Infrastructure & Woodworking ) , and Todd Butler ( VP of Procurement of Cheap Train Stuff from thrift stores ... LOL! ) . Without all of you the Free State Junction Railway may have come to be, but not to the extent it has become. As you know, there are parts and scenes on the layout named after each of you .... Lake Christopher, Butler Junction, my brother's business Benchmark Homes, and of course Mt. Randolph. All I did was create the track plan, track laying, some electrical, and the scenery. You all baked the cake all I did was frost the cake with the scenery.
