I've always been interested in model railroads, have been in N scale since 1968, and active in Ntrak since 1992. Nona, my wife is a native of Tokyo and on a visit to her native land in the 1990's she bought me a gift of several Japanese N scale model railroad cars.
In 1999 I made my first trip to Japan and was so impressed with the system of railroads. There were so many different trains all running on schedule. On that first trip I started what became a habit of collecting models of the trains that we rode. I had wanted to photograph the models in an appropriate scene and thought about building a station diorama. Then I decided why not build a set of T-Trak modules for this purpose and have something of a Japanese layout that I could actually run these trains on.
As I did not know of anyone else in my area building T-Trak I knew I would need to build enough to have a complete layout by myself This photo shows part of my one nearly completed T-Trak module.Visiting the International Railfair in Roseville, CA in 2008 I saw a most impressive Asian themed modular layout called AsiaNrail. I already knew the owner of most of the modules as he is a member of Peninsula Ntrak which I also belong to. He invited me to build Japanese themed module(s) that could be used with the AsiaNrail layout at future shows. This was a turning point and the T-Trak modules were abandoned.
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