Creativity, inspiration, and determination
GREAT MODEL RAILROADSis Model Railroader magazine’s annual salute to hobbyists who have achieved the ultimate goal of our hobby, the “complete” model railroad. We have to put that word in quotation marks because it’s the rare layout builder who thinks there’s nothing more to do or nowhere left to go with what looks to most of us like a finished layout. Looking over the offerings in this issue of GMR, I’m once again struck by the sheer creativity, inspiration, and determination of so many model railroaders. These are people with the vision to see what they want to accomplish and the drive to get it done. Some work mostly on their own, most rely on friendships and cooperative effort, and this issue even includes one husband-and-wife-team (far from our first or…