Name

Scott Johnson

Description

I film real trains all over the country, and have a spare bedroom N scale layout. It is set in the mid to late 1990s, but sometimes a 1940s Daylight with a GS-4 or an Alco PA/PB will be featured, or a 1980s freight or Coast Starlight.
It features Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in SE Portland, Oregon, Oregon City, and some generic Oregon countryside and Cascade mountain scenery. BN shows up, too, and lots of Amtrak. I like to re create trains I have ridden, grew up with (Southern Railway in the 70s) and watched with my son in the 90s and early 2000s. I I really like Rainbow -era Amtrak; the variety was incredible.
I was lucky enough to have worked for Ensco, Inc in Springfield, VA in 1984/85 doing track surveys on Amtrak and other railroads. Riding the head end of 3 F40s screaming across Arizona at 90 mph plus was an experience I will never forget.
I have written articles for TRAINS and CLASSIC TRAINS magazines, starting in 2000.

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