Sharing N scale trains by the internet

Hi, my name is Jeff and I am a custom model train painter in Milwaukee WI USA. I specialize in N scale locomotives and passenger cars.
The purpose of this blog is to explore the potential of meeting fellow N scale enthusiasts around the world and creating a virtual railroading experience. I guess as I think about this, scale is unimportant. No real models will be exchanged unless the owners and operators choose to do so. Be careful if you do try that and be sure all proper measures are taken to insure your exchanged equipment's safety. I take no responsibility for anyone who decides to actually share parts of their collection, but that could be fun too as well all like something someone else owns and wish we could run it. If even for just a while
The basic idea is to tell others about your layout and then to communicate by the world wide web when you are operating. For example if you wanted to create a realistic running experience and you ran Union Pacific, you might chat online with another person who runs oh let us say CSX. Those two railroads meet in several locations and you could run your train to a yard on your layout and then tell your buddy the train is ready to be picked up.
This of course would require two enthusiasts with similar interests and who model a location on each layout that meets the "end" of the other person's layout. Similar equipment would be great as it would somewhat defeat the purpose to leave a unit coal train pulled by Union Pacific in a yard and then it leaves on the CSX as an intermodal train.
That is the sort of stuff left to imagination and the world is a large place. This page is intended to help others seek out modelers who might have similar interests and pull of a virtual railroad where the operation is larger than just your own layout.

I am new to blogging so I am not sure how this will work. You will probably have to do something more than simply log onto the page and see what is going on. Once I get the feel of this I can update the way this will work.

Let us see if this train has any traction and can even make it out of the yard.

The place to start is to say hi by whatever means that is here. I am brand new to this so don't feel like you are alone if you have never tried this before. I can imagine we will all earn together and the process if it takes off at all will get a lot of refining as time passes.

I am actually not the best person to get this rolling as my layout is pretty simple and small. My interests are The Milwaukee Road, Amtrak, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific. What runs on my layout, when I even have time is what I have an interest in that day.
I truly think this will best be left to others with larger more complex layouts, but I am happy to give the train the all clear sign and get it rolling.

If you have found this page, drop by and see if anything new is going on. Also be sure to tell all your buddies about is as the only way this will grow is by word of mouth.

Have fun to all!
Jeff King