My name is Sean, I am 24 and currently live in Los Angeles. Growing up I loved trains, I was really into HO scale all the way up to high school, where the teenage years pulled me away from the hobby. I kept all my models, but boxed em' up and put them in storage. Now that I am getting a little older, have some money and am about to get a place of my own with my girlfriend of 2 years, things are starting to fall into place so I will be able to get back into the hobby.

This is all going to start with the GF and I planning to permanently move to Washington state, about 30 miles south of Seattle in the Tacoma area. We plan on getting a 3 bedroom place so I can have a train room, a room for my office/ painting gallery for my GF and a 3rd room as a dedicated bedroom.

I recently went into a book store and saw the April 2015 Model Railroader issue where I read the article about Duane Ericson's On30 Torres & Prietas layout and instantly fell in love with it. Before I saw that article I was going back and forth on weather or not I would want to do an On30 Logging or Mining layout. His layout cemented the idea of doing an On30 mining layout. I did a quick Google search for " On30 Torres & Prietas layout " which got took me to your wonderful community, and combed through every page of his build log.

Really looking forward to participating and getting back into the hobby!

-Sean