About Me or What I Like Most About T-Trak:
Lifelong Model builder, RR+ (multiple scales), Chicago area native, USCG Veteran, NMRA/Midwest Region, Fox Valley Division member, also active in NTrak beginning in 1984-5.
T-Trak is considerably easier, lighter, and far more portable and compact than the NTrak Std., though, there are differences in 'real estate' spaces for scenery(!)
My Modules
My Trains
2/'21 Roster (Photos to Follow…)
I: "Emperor of the North Pole" ('ENP', 1973 Film, set in Great Depression-era Oregon, c.1933)
A: CAST (Live Action Subject Consists)
- OP&E Steam
- #19 Portland (2-8-2 'tea kettle' Mixed Short Line Freight)
- #5 USPS/REA (Blue, Silver, & Black 2-8-0 + 4 HWs: Bags, Horse, RPO, Combine)
- #20 Pax (Silver & Black 2-8-0 w/3 SP coaches: 'Cottage Grove', 'Village Green', 'Dorena Lake', + 1 HW Pullman 'Woodland')
B: CREW (Production/Work Trains/Cars)
* BN (Flags) 'Buxton Spl.': (RS-11, GP-9, 2@Airstream, + Flats)
* Prop/Set Pcs: 'SP&S', 'Evergreen', + 'AAR 1933' Box cars
C: 1972 Prototype RR (LIVE Filming Location/Site Context)
- OP&E (Shay w/## Logger Flats, 2@GE70T + 1 MoW train, , Spare SP/RI Pax Coaches, Caboose 'dead' line, etc.)
- SP (EUY Power Pool — SDs, ALCOs, GE70T, etc.)
- EB Sawmills' PulpGon Drag (##cars)
- Proto-Manifest ("Boeing, GM, etc." — ## cars)
- Marine Industrial Local (MP15DC/GE&)T/SW1500, + ## cars)
- MoW Spls: RoW Repair, + Fire & Snow Fighters (2ea. Rotaries w/F7B Snails, 2@SD7/9s, + Crew Cars)
- AMTRAK
- ('SW Ltd.' as) Coast Starlight w/E9As
- USDOT PR (3-car) Demo Turbo
II: NON-ENP
NRail PR Spl. (FTs, Jim Fitzgerald Box Car, NMRA 50th Box Car, MTL DropGon, TTRAK Caboose)
SP:
- WWII Wooden PFE Drag (GS-4 + ## reefers, both Open & Closed Ice Hatches)
- 1947 US Friendship Train (+)
- Pullman HW Pax
ATSF (c.1960):
- El Capitan
- GE Golden Values Spl. ("Goldbonnet PA-1 #53L" + 'Golden Bogie' 4-car consist: Bag/2 Coach/Obs.)
UP Excursion Train
*#4141 + E9A #957, 7 cars + Business car "Cheyenne"
(Amtrak):
- NE/C Ph. 2 Turbo
'SCOOTS' (Bi-Level Suburban Commuters):
- SP — TM, RS11, Daylight Coach, + # BLGs)
- MILW E9A #35A, '30s Hiawatha coach, 3 BLGs + 'Hiawatha' SuperDome
- RTA 1970s CNW/UP-N E8A #513 (7 Pullman BLGs)
- METX (modern)
- #405 Bicyclists' (6 BLGs + 1 'Bicycle' Pullman BLG)
- #90 ('Albino' + 7 BLGs)
- #181 KATO/SBG Spl. (3BLGs)
- #142 Ravinia Spl. (7 Pullman BLGs)
- #133 2018 ONP Spl.
- #426 (7 BLGs)
- 121 JJ's 'Little John' Spl.