Michael has been a model railroader since age 11 when he played with a few OO scale cars his father had built during WWII. During high school he built an 8 x 8 foot HO layout in the family’s basement. The next 25 years were filled with reading model railroad magazines, dreaming, and occasional modeling while attending college, medical school and Internal Medicine residency, Navy during and after Viet Nam, specialty fellowship training in Oncology, and starting and building an Oncology group practice in North Texas. Once their kids were grown, Michael and wife built a smaller house (but with a bigger train room) where an “empty” attic is now home to an O gauge layout depicting the Virginian Railway where long coal trains run through the colorful fall Appalachian countryside. Michael joined the NMRA in 1959 and qualified for MMR in 2021.
CLINIC - Making Deciduous Trees
Modeling Eastern deciduous forests is a challenge, especially in the fall with all it’s amazing color. For his Virginian Railway, Michael Ross has made literally hundreds of trees. His goal was to mass produce believable deciduous forests trees at a cost not exceeding one dollar per tree. Michael will demonstrate the various techniques he used. A few random attendees will walk away from the clinic with one of Michael’s realistic trees.
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