CROCODILE TRAIN STORE.....NEW FORUM SPONSOR and MAGAZINE ADVERTISER ....!

Hi Alan,

I want to thank you so much for all of the help in quickly and efficiently including me in your wonderful enterprise that does such a GREAT service to the world of model trains and in particular the O gauge community.  I have been enjoying the magazine and the incredible knowledge base as a hobbyist for many years now and am excited to share my love of the hobby with the many wonderful Forum participants and viewers.  Also thank you for sharing the video of your wonderful city layout.  It is a world of it's own.

To the many people that might view this post, I welcome you to contact me for whatever service I may be to you in helping you enjoy as I do, the joys of the hobby.  Trains are especially important to me because being a home based business with my store attached to my house it allows me to spend quality time with my wife who has a long term illness and needs care throughout the day.  I welcome phone calls and visits at any time between 10AM and 10PM 7 days a week.

You can see my layout by following the links on my webpage to the store layout category.  I have put some pictures to share below

Happy and Healthy New Year to All,

Mike

welcome

Thanks for being the first to welcome me!

Mike

Welcome aboard!!!

Thanks,

If you are interested I just  posted a cool way to do an electrical control panel schematic.

Welcome Aboard as well. You have a very fine looking store, website & layout!!! Sometime will stop by.

Thanks,

I look forward to it.  We have a big Victorian house and used to have a large B&B called the Brewster Inn in Dexter Maine so we are used to having visitors stay with us, so if you visit the Finger Lakes of New York state you have a place to stay and run trains.

Cheers,

Mike

Crocodile Train Store posted:

Thanks,

I look forward to it.  We have a big Victorian house and used to have a large B&B called the Brewster Inn in Dexter Maine so we are used to having visitors stay with us, so if you visit the Finger Lakes of New York state you have a place to stay and run trains.

Cheers,

Mike

 

 

Mike, thank you for the information. Much obliged.

Mike, you have such a tastefully done and beautiful layout. Your Crocodile Train Store must be 3 to 4 hours away from my Yorktown Heights, NY home, but well worth the long drive for me and my wife to visit. Also, I think model trains and music make a great combination. I hope to visit your store in the not too distant future.  Arnold

Hi Arnold,

Thanks for the kind words.  I look forward to your visit.  Give me a call so I can make sure to be home when you arrive.  Hopefully you can stay long enough to run trains and I can pick a banjo or guitar tune for you.  You are not to far from my cousin who lives in larchmont New York near Long Island.  I owe a great debt of gratitude to my friends Al Judy, and Dan Giles for the realization of my layout that would not have been possible without them.  Please visit my store if you need anything.  I have recently lowered all my prices to make trains more easily available for everyone.  My layout is my passion and I hope to help others in their endeavors.

Happy New Year 

Mike

Hi Mike, thanks for being a sponsor, what a great looking layout, I'd love to see more of it and even better yet I'd love to be able to see it in person but alas, I live in the "Arm-pit" of Texas and it is a wee bit to far for me to go and see it.  I agree with Arnold, trains and music make a wonderful combination, an old friend of mine is fiddle player and he also does classical music on the violin extremely well but to top it all off, he is a fantastic modeler and has a terrific eye for modeling.  He has that special touch if you know what I mean.  You seem to have the same touch and knack in your modeling too.

Welcome aboard and by all means, please feel free to post your pics of your layout as well as your tips and such, I for one would love to see them.

Back to the tumble weeds,

J. Motts

Hi J.

Thank you for your kind words.  It is especially meaningful to hear it from a REAL train guy,   I see from your bio that you actually worked on the railroad.  WOW! 

 I was an industrial control trainer for 25 years for Siemens and Moore products and I visited Texas numerous times in that capacity near Midland, Odessa, Hobbs NM and Houston 6 weeks a year.  It was great in the Winter not so great in the summer.

As for the layout I knew what I wanted and realized I needed help so Al Judy master modeler and friend was the real visionary in making my dream come true.  I concentrated on the computer and electrical side of things and did what I could not to mess up what he was doing as we worked on it.  Three of us started this layout in March of 2018 and I am on my own now finishing up wiring the buildings and the accessories.  I still have to add the Lionel and MTH wifi and swwitch acessory boxes to automate the switching with an AIU and the Legacy interface to the IPAD and Legacy Cab .

Tumble away my Texas friend, like the guy in the quirky movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Cheers,

Mike

Welcome to the Forum and OGR magazine, Mike!

We need to get your store layout in the magazine at some point in the near future for the benefit of our print issue readers and newsstand readers (potential subscribers, in particular) who are not necessarily connected online. I will get in touch with you about that.

Again: Welcome aboard!

Allan

Hi Double L Allan,

Nice to meet another Allan.  One L Alan has done a fantastic job getting me set up.

Thanks for the kind words and warm welcome.  I also need to write copy for the dealer listing in the back of the magazine and figure out some text for the magazine AD.  I have already become more involved in the train community thanks to your great Forum and publication.  I look forward to a great New Year of participation.  I have recently lowered my prices across the board on my online site to make what can be an expensive hobby more affordable and I want to get that message across to the other train guys and gals that are working hard to make and improve nice layouts, and with your help perhaps I can make that happen.

I love the hobby and business as it lets me simultaneously work, have fun and take care of my wife simultaneously.

I look forward to sharing my layout in the magazine both in pictures and words.  Al Judy and I documented the entire layout building process and I learned a lot in the process which I am happy to share.  We wrote some article text early on in the hopes of publication since Al had done some publishing with you previously as in the case with my buddy Sam Pennise who live near me and has a great ON30 layout. 

Thanks for reaching out.

Best Regards,

Mike

Mike,

Great layout. Allan is correct, it belongs in the magazine for our print readers to see and enjoy.

Welcome to the OGR family, glad to have you join us.

Ed Boyle, Partner

Associate Editor, O Gauge Railroading magazine

Allan Miller, perhaps you could also check into Mr. Sam Pennise's On30 layout for a future article too.  I'm sure there are a number of On30 modelers on this forum who would enjoy seeing his layout and how he built it.  I also have quite a bit of On30 stuff dating back from when the Bachmann first introduced their nice little shays and that is what got me started in On30.

Keep up the great work on the magazine, I look forward to its arrival each time it comes out.

WELCOME! GREAT layout! One question: why "crocodile"? Are you from Florida or Louisiana by any chance?

Tinplate Art posted:

WELCOME! GREAT layout! One question: why "crocodile"? Are you from Florida or Louisiana by any chance?

Isn't there a locomotive known as the Crocodile something or other?

I assumed that was the reason for the name Crocodile Train Store.

Yes, on the Swiss railways, but is that the reason? I am a fan of, and own, an LGB  RhB crocodile.