Calm words of encouragement…
I was almost 9 when I stepped foot on Canadian soil. The railways; the interest, the emotion hasn’t left me… it isn’t for everyone but for me it’s personal… Harris, Saskatchewan, August 1989. Keith Hilton photo. I honestly had every intention of focusing on a OO gauge urban project, somewhere to provide a home for the Accurascale Pacer that is on pre-order. But here we are, back Prairie day dreaming. It was conversation with Will Lloyd that perhaps crystallised this sense of course correction, the wind changed and I’m back there, scouring my memory for scraps of reality - but really, I think I’m searching for a sense of connection with my Dad, gone now for some 16 years… It was Dad who loved Canada. His passion and my interest in railways coalesced in the ‘ great last project ’ and the reason I have such fond memories of lying on my back under baseboards soldering up point motor wiring all around the double garage (as well as later, going to the pub afterwards). I was ...
