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My model train history begins in golden
60's, when my grand father bought me my first Märklin Starter
Set. Already at that time my talents was more in ripping than
in building, and the model train hobby gave many new possibilities
for the young boy. Especially I recall experiments in the hill
climbing performance of locomotives. I built a straight piece
of track on a board and the other end of the board was raised
until the wheels of the loco started to slide. During two years
of violin lessons the only thing I had learned, was that the violin
rosin increased friction. I put lots of violin rosin to the rails
and found out, that the rosin was not only an excellent electric
isolator but also very hard to remove. Anyway the parents encouraged
their son to a good hobby and together were among many things
tens of Faller house kits built. A major stop to the hobby was
my little brother with his friend. They had a brilliant idea to
play World War II with all trains and houses and everything was
destroyed.
Many years later the birth of my first child returned the idea
of model railroad hobby. The fact, that the first child, Henna,
was a girl, did not slow down the buying of a new Starter Set.
This time the choice was an N-scale set (Roco) because we lived
at the time in small flat. The first table layout was built before
Henna started to walk. Later two smaller versions of the N-layout
have been made and the last one is still in function.
In 1999 the move to a one family house made a new, bigger H0-layout
with Finnish prototype possible. This layout was under work for
many years but never finished.
I graduated from Helsinki University of
Technology as Master of Science in Engineering and Machine Design,
and I work at Thermo
Fisher Scientific as Technology Manager for Liquid Transfer
Products. The company manufactures various laboratory instruments
and diagnostic kits. Mechatronics and precision molded plastic
parts and -molds are my speciality, which is useful also with
these hobby projects.