OK, so the real reason I'm back at Blogger is because I discovered James D. Lowe's writings on E. L. Moore. If this doesn’t make sense to you, it makes even less sense to me, but here's how it came to be. After having a brief stint with an HO layout as a kid, I got back into model railroading in the early 90s when my son was interested in trains. That ran its course of me collecting and building railroad items and building a layout, and with the exception of a 10-year period where I went to the track with my race car (which is covered in my other Blogger posts) I had been happily building Craftsman kits for myself and my clients long after I had any room on the layout to put them. After I had built a number of them was when I started posting Build Videos on YouTube and started my channel growing (Greg Cassidy’s Workshop). The model railroad club that I'm also a member of often accepts donations that we sell at train shows to help fund our club’s Scholarship Campaign. One of the donations that I picked up contained, along with a number of other things, an open box of the Pola Brewery, which is a plastic kit in HO scale. All of the pieces inside it had been taken off of the plastic sprues, but it had never been built and I knew that an open box with loose pieces was unlikely to fetch very much at the train show. Modelers are usually wary of buying something where they may not have all the pieces they need to put it together. So, in order to make sure all the pieces were there I decided to build it. This was not going to be a fully detailed build like I do for myself or my clients but just the bare minimum to make sure that all the pieces were there. I knew that we could sell it for more than the open box would ever fetch. What were jokingly called instructions that came with it were not nearly complete enough for me to know if I had all the parts, so I went online to look at other completed versions of this kit to see what went where. In the course of that is where I ran across Mr. Lowe's very thorough blog on the buildings of E. L. Moore. I had already started to develop an interest in older plastic kits, having built a couple of them previously for some clients. They're not my first choice. I usually prefer to build a Craftsman kit or a laser cut kit or built from scratch out of wood. But after building a couple of kits from the 60s or 70s, it reminded me of some of the buildings that I had built back when I was a kid, and maybe that's why I was becoming more interested in them. I'm not sure what this is going to lead to as I still have plans for a number of other Craftsman kits to build for myself as well as working through some of the NMRA Achievement Program certificates. But I can see this developing interest in some of the history of old model railroad structures becoming just another part of my general interest in history. Just what I need; another time sponge.