Mark. I named my layout after the very small town I live in. We have 5 acres here. I was raised about 5 miles from here in Flat River Missouri. My wife has lived in Wortham all her life when I married her I move out here. The town has maybe 300 people in it. Sadly the town part is gone like the little store/ post office and the school which is a field I used to bale hay off of across the road from my house. A man that lived up the hill from me his dad starred the town in the 1920s with a store and post office with his last name Wortham. Sadly in 1991 the board in Flat River decide to consolidate all the little townships around Flat River in to one big town called Park Hills Missouri till this day I will always call this town and towns around me by there original names. My layout will never look like the town Wortham Mo. I called it in the Memory of the town and my sweet neighbor that lived up the hill from me that we had so many good talks about the little town we live in
Jim. Thanks for the complement and stopping by yes these Layouts are a lot of work and test your skillls in many areas but it is worth it to me
Yeah, i was brought up in the US from a baby, first was Poughkeepsie NY then Tucson Arizona and finally Raleigh North Carolina, then when I was 12 years old we moved to the UK my mother came from Ireland and she met my father at Cambridge, so she wanted to come back. Do miss it but still get to visit relatives there so not so bad. Good to see your railway models, I'm just starting my Jupiter locomotive, on other threads, love the old wild west stuff, would be interested if you have any color photos of wild west locos, 4-4-0, especially as it's difficult to find anything on the Jupiter, only color photos are of the replicas in Utah, everything else is black and white, anyhow nice talking, keep well buddy.
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