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Boy's Life Layout John built

This Boy's Life photo is the approximate design of my first layout..

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About John's HO Trees

I started my first train layout when I was 10, thanks to the help of my dad and Boy's Life Magazine that published an HO scale train layout series in the late 1950's.   Since then, I've built 5 different layouts and understand the delights and frustrations of layout construction.   In 2009, I dismantled a long-standing layout and built an entirely new DCC multi-level HO layout using the Digitrax Zephyr system.   I also belong to the TCMMRA, a Free-Mo train club half-way between Fort Worth & Dallas.   

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John's H.O. & N Trees was started in 2016.    More and more tree types were added, and then I expanded into flowers, thicket, cactus, and tropical plants.      

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Besides having customers from California to New Jersey, and Montana to Texas, I have my trees in three museums:  The Jefferson Train Museum, in Jefferson, TX; the Texas State Railroad in Palestine, TX; the Moffat Tunnel Railroad Museum in Granby, CO.   

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I've actively promoted my trees at train shows in Plano, Grapevine, Temple, and Jefferson, Texas; and Oklahoma City, OK.  

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I enjoy helping model railroaders and diorama makers with scenery products that bring scenes to 'life'.    

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Canoe on river passing John's pine trees
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