My
name is Ken Nesper and my wife and I live in NE DC. My railroading
heritage starts with a great grandfather who was an engineer for
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. I also had a great uncle who
was a tower operator for the New York Central. My paternal
grandfather worked for Standard Oil (Ohio) as a shipping manager
in daily contact with the railroads of Toledo. My dad, brother,
and I built an HO layout in the early 1960s.
My wife gets the credit, or blame, for my re-restarting my participation in the hobby of model railroading in the mid-1980s. We were passing a hobby store that was holding a “going out of business sale.” She encouraged me to buy a Lionel train set. Then, at Xmas, she gifted me with a Model Railroader subscription. I was hooked. I built two O-gauge (hi-rail) railroads in the basement of our Silver Spring house. I also fell in with an operating group that now calls itself the Anachronistic Era. In 1988, my wife and I moved to the District of Columbia and I began building my first O scale 2 rail layout. You can read about my progress, since then, in the Annual Reports section of this web site.
Over the years, we've held open houses for O Scale national conventions, Mid-Eastern Region (MER/NMRA) conventions, the Potomac Division (MER/NMRA), and my neighbors. Private viewings are available upon request, but masks may be required. The train room is not handicap accessible.
You can contact me at oscaledc@yahoo.com.