Welcome to my latest micro model railroad project, the Herrin Micro. This HO scale layout is constructed on a foamcore baseboard box with staging tracks for the industry on the left, and two staging tracks to the right. Total layout size including baseboard and staging tracks is 523 square inches. The scene is based on the old Maytag plant in Herrin, Illinois. 

This will probably be sort of a long and rambling blog entry but it's something I consider quite often and in light of some  random but sort of serendipitous coincidences it's been percolating in my mind lately. I've really been thinking a lot about the various influences on my freelance modeling and the sometimes simple events that sparked and shaped them. The most obvious influence on my work, I think, is John Allen.

Sharing a pandemic project that we should have done 12 years ago when we bought the house, but then again the kids were still in school, then there was college tuition for 2, then a wedding but now the last two have left the "nest" and funding became available.