User:TVSRR
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This user is a member of Wikiproject NASCAR. |
My name is Jason Trew (that is how my last name is spelt), I was born on March 14, 1979 in Ringgold, Georgia and an active Railfan when I am not at Northwestern Technical College studying computers. When I am not watching trains, I would be studying on the old Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California and the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. I do have a photo of myself on Southern Railway 4610, a GM-EMD GP59 painted in Southern Green and I am a former volunteer at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee (I currently deliver Pizzas for a local store). Whenever I am not working on the railroad or on the model railroad, I can be found doing one of the following hobbies:
- Bowling
- Mini Golf
- Photography
- going out with friends/classmates from Ringgold High School
- reading books and watching movies
[edit] About the Trewsville Southern Railroad layout
The Trewsville Southern is my 12.5 by 18.5 foot HO Scale model railroad, the layout started its life as the Chessie System Allegheny Southern Railroad (better known as the CSAS). After a bit of going by the name CSAS, I changed it to the Norfolk Southern Trewsville Subdivision and since the layout was freelanced I was running various power on the layout and renamed the layout the Trewsville Southern Railroad. The TVS just got a section of an old piece of layout from the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee back in 2004, and is currently in use. I would like to use the TVS as a way of showing tips and problems whenever something comes up (i.e. shorts on the layout, signal wiring, and other stuff I could think of).
My railroad is currently a work in progress and anything can happen during this time, I am going from the transition from a "train set" type layout to model railroad and I am getting there slow and steady. The TVS can be located on the internet at Yahoo Groups. Details are what make the difference from a train set to a model railroad, when I get this layout ready, where will be enough details to go insane (I even have a berma shave sign set) and should be in a magazine soon. I just recently placed a Burger King on the layout and got some vehicles just for more details.
The major difference from a frelanced model railroad and a regular model railroad is that with a freelanced railroad you can say anything you want and fix the route the way you want (The TVSRR runs from fictional Raingold, Georgia, to Stewartsville, Georgia, and terminating in Trewsville, Georgia) whereas you can model the prototype inch by inch and be very happy with the end result of that layout you model. To build a big model railroad you need enough space to build that great model railroad you want and make sure you plan on either making your railroad freelanced or a real railroad mainline.
[edit] Painting TVSRR Equipment
Painting a locomotive or freight car can be easy or hard, the unified locomotive paint scheme is green with either yellow or dulux lettering on one line. As of right now, 6 units are currently wearing the TVS paint scheme and they are: 1997 (the year I graduated from Ringgold high School, painted in Penn Central green, 802, 345, 1027 (for the Kalmbach Publishing Adress), 3701 (for the Chattanooga Depot, one of the Hobby Shops the TVS supports), and 2018A (wich is a special number that I like). The TVS caboose will be in the same colors as the Southern Railway and use the letter X in front of the number (Per SOU practice).
