Hi everybody.  I'm Michael.  I used to have an account here, but that was several years ago and things got busy in my life.  I'm now at college for automotive restoration and I have a bit more free time to work on my model railway.  I collect almost anything European, as long as it is HO or OO scale and I collect all the Thomas trains.  My roster includes Thomas (both Bachmann and Hornby), Edward (Bachmann), Oliver (Hornby), Duck (Hornby), Gordon (Bachmann), James (Bachmann), Bill & Ben (Hornby), and various freight cars from both.  I am hoping to learn more about model trains and layout building on here, as with my free time, I hope to start a semi-permanent layout, not one that just gets set up whenever the mood hits.