Like most kids, I dabbled in quite a few hobbies and sports growing up and model railways was one of these. Then, when I reached about the age of seventeen, girls, cars and guitars intervened, and I stopped my participation in the hobby. However, I returned to the hobby around 1990 after attending a model railway exhibition in Newcastle, a city north of Sydney.
I had an adult’s ambition and resources but a teenager level of understanding of what the hobby had to offer. In this new adult phase I discovered I had a lot
