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Some of you reading this blog may be wondering \u201chow did this guy get so much OO info?\u201d It is the result of a lot of work over more than thirty years, collecting Xerox copies of catalogs, reading many old magazines, etc., with help from a wide variety of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One big push for me in the mid-1980s was writing with the late Ed Morlok a pair of articles on American OO that were published in the October, 1986 and April, 1987 issues of The Train Collectors Quarterly<\/i>. But even before that I was working on versions of checklists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the article work and the checklist drafts that existed from as far back as the early 1980s I completed in 1997 a manuscript version of a fairly lengthy book that I titled The American OO Checklist<\/em>. At that time I looked for a publisher with no luck. Some parts of the manuscript were worked over for publication in The OO Road<\/em>, the publication of the NMRA OO special interest group, and now parts of it are making it online in American OO Today<\/i> mixed with new materials. This photo is of the copy of the draft I most often refer to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While someday I would love to see some version of the manuscript published, for now I am happy just to focus on getting some accurate information out there on OO and posting about projects and models that interest me. As I have worked on posts for this blog I have also been double checking the original sources so it is also helping me in getting the info squared away better as well; I am learning new things about American OO literally every week and have been able to expand my source materials quite a bit since back in 1997 when I worked out that draft book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me also there is a bigger picture. I realize fully that I am in a very unique position in relation to American OO gauge today, with materials to reference and ability to post articles about it. I am a firm believer that God puts each of us in unique circumstances and there are things we can do within those. I recognize that I can make a contribution in relation to this information on American OO, and will keep working to add new material to this site at least every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of now the checklist project is formally on hold. At some point I will come back to it but for the moment I am enjoying learning more about American OO and sharing it with what site statistics suggest is a varied group of readers. I have a few ideas of actual print articles that I would like to work on but on the whole I am pretty content to keep working over the materials for online publication for now, with an eye someday to a bigger publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated November 2010<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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