Post by norgale on May 28, 2019 20:00:07 GMT -5
I was born in Massachusetts in 1942 just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor. Got my first train set,American Flyer, from my parents when I was 5 or 6 and have been hooked ever since. Went to the Bank Street School in North Attleboro,Ma. for a couple years and then we moved to Plainville ,Ma. and went to Plainville Elementary, then to Manlius Military academy near Syracuse ,NY, next was Arch Bishop Curley High in Miami, then Lawrence High in Falmouth,Ma and then Barnstable High in Hyannis,Ma and finally two years at Dean College in Franklin,Ma. Then I was a traveling salesman in Georgia and Alabama for a jewelry company in Attleboro,Ma for about 7years and then opened up my own delivery company in West Palm Beach,Fl. Sold that and moved to Marco Island,Fl. on the left coast and started an Irrigation and landscaping business and worked for the Deltona Corp as a land fill estimator at the same time. And then was when I bought a house and had my second RR layout. Since then I'v had five or six layouts and love trains now as much as I ever did as a kid. I also had steam engines going through my back yard in N. Attleboro and saw my first diesel engine in about 1947. The RR brought coal and heating oil to my town so we could all be warm in the winter. WE never heard of air conditioning for in the summer so we didn't know we needed it. Now I'm retired and live in Bonita Springs,Fl. and I'm looking for a Park Model Home to replace my rv fifth wheel so I can build a room on the side and have lots of room for my trains, ship models and every other type of model I can think of. I've also restored seven Lincolns from 1957 to 1960 so I'm into vintage Lincolns but don't have any right now. Anybody knows any of the schools I went to let me know. We may even be friends from long ago.
Thanks to Rusty Cuda for steering me to this forum. Rusty and I go back several years on another forum so we are good friends. Pretty sure I know trainman 56 too.
