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Jim Quarles
A model railroader since 1947 (I started very young).
For years I was a 'lone wolf' modeler that was not interested in the social aspects of the hobby. A move to a large metro area changed all that. I was fortunate to see a handbill posted in a local hobby shop about forming a modular model railroad club and went to the first meeting. That led to being a charter member, the first secretary, and modular superintendent of the Arizona Model Railroading Society where I met some characters that became very close friends. A move to Tucson led to more contacts with a modular club down there then another move to Pittsburg, KS led to even more contacts. I joined the club at Pittsburg before we had a house located.
One of the jobs in these clubs that seemed to fall on my shoulders was coming up with the specs for modules. We were constantly battling weight, damage, warping, moisture, easy setups.
We used Styrofoam scenery on the larger modules to hold down on the weight and discovered it suffered less from moving damage than plaster scenery. This led to my interest in developing a module of foam of some kind that would be, stiff, light, quiet, inert to temperature and humidity and still allow trains to operate.
I've been out of the hobby for the past ten years, more or less, and when I walked into a hobby shop recently was very intrigued with the display of foam technology at the Woodland Scenics area of the hobby shop.
This website is dedicated to my experiment with the foam layout.
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Jim Quarles
Springfield, MO
Revised: May 22, 2003