...I ride (by) that house now and remember how much he enjoyed talking about (his layout)... would be nice if just a part of our stuff survived intact with info about us as the builders.
You are so right, Matt. Considering all the work, love and hope we put into our layouts, it really would be nice to believe something of them would survive long after we are gone. I have had several features about my layout (The Ironbound) in the popular model train mags appearing over the years, and my own website dedicated to the layout... but when I am gone, I doubt anyone will keep up the website, and the magazine articles will fade over time. Even today, as popular and well-known as it was in its day, how many of us remember John Allen's "Gorre & Dephetid" (gory and defeated)? Maybe what we need is a model railroad museum-directory dedicated to somehow engraving our layouts in the granite of time. It's a thought.
~Andy
