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Like many of us Bob got his start in model trains as a child. In 1950, when Bob was 13, his parents bought him an American Flyer® Sante Fe A-B trainset back. Over the years Bob became a master builder of model airplanes. He even built his own real plane that he flew. Bob eventually left airplane modeling, leaving his collection of over 175 planes to a local aviation museum. Bob returned to model railroading gauge about 7 years ago when he decided to build a model railroad with his young daughter. He picked up some Lionel trains and got started. But when he rediscoverd the AF set his parents gave him Bob quickly sold off the Lionel and got started in "S" gauge once again. With a good deal of modeling skills under his belt Bob enjoys building the trains. Currently Bob is converting well used AF rolling stock to scale equipment.
Other pages of Bob LaRiviere's work:
- Converting An AF Hopper To Scale
- Kitbashing A Two Dome Tank Car
- Kitbashing An AF Depressed Center Flatcar
- Bob LaRiviere's Layout - September, 2001 (page one)
- Bob LaRiviere's Layout - September, 2001 (page two)
- The CSG Module Cam and the NASG Armco Steel Building
- Trainstuff's Feed & Grain building
- Bob's American Flyer Layout
- Building a diesel "steam" shovel June 5, 2004
