Please join me in wishing my good friend Jim Senese (KCTRWY) of Claremore, OK a very Happy Birthday! For those of you that don't know Jim personally, he is an outstanding modeler, railroad historian, and researcher who has spent years building a realistic HO replica of the Kansas City area and how several railroads operated both together and separately. His railroad is set in the fall of 1980 and was featured in the the 1999 issue of Model Railroading Planning. He is also active in helping each year in planning the Layout Design & Operations Weekend that is held annually in Tulsa. Most of all he is a very kind and generous person.
From one Jim to another, Happy Birthday! The iron tongue of time tolls the hour. May you have many more.
A well-worn copy that I still have in the workshop! Happy Birthday, Jim S.; without realizing it, your layout provided that "light bulb moment" for what to model when my son laid out some very particular givens for a layout, i.e. "I want both the SL-SF and AT&SF on the say layout, with a rural scene and a city scene." Best Regards,
Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes! They made the day very special for me. Next time you plan to be in NE Oklahoma railfanning please give a call (I'm in Claremore close to where the Frisco and the MoPac crossed at grade). I'd love to have you come over and run some 1/87 Frisco trains on my Kansas City Terminal. Jim Senese
