A happy Friday to one and all!  My name is Jim and this is my MRH blog. A little about me. I've been a model railroader (armchair or otherwise) since my parents got me an HO starter set to run on a piece of plywood on our pool table when I was a kid.  Since then I've done a lot of reading, been a member of a large layout club and somewhere in there owned and operated a retail hobby store.  I've finally gotten to a point of having enough space to do a reasonable home layout, plus some office space for a shelf layout or two!