Welcome to The Trainman's Home Page

(Jim Banner lives here)


The Trainman - definitely hirsute, sometimes astute.

        THE TRAINMAN'S HOME PAGE       
 is the doorway to my personal website.  It includes:
    • links to my model railway pages
    • links to my family's sites
    • links to my personal pages (interesting
      to me and maybe interesting to you.)




Stories of the Lorraine Valley & James River Railway 
The facts and fiction behind my H0 layout, complete with photos.


Lorraine Valley Workshop   A collection of articles or "clinics" on how things are done on the LV&JRR.

Remember When  A trip down nostalgia boulevard with a look at some antiques along the way.

Things You Just Have to Know  A light hearted look at some things that you probably didn't care about anyway.

15 Minutes of Fame  It happens to all of us - we get our 15 minutes of fame.  Well, here's mine.

SRM    Link to the Saskatoon Railroad Modellers' website

Model Railroad Links
    Direct link to the Links Page at the Saskatoon Railroad Modellers' website.

Bunlady    Link to my wife's website where some of our family photos are stored

Sumaq Valley Alpacas
     Link to my son's and daugther-in-law's Alpaca and Komondor website.

CONTACT  A place where you can send quips, kudos or complaints to the author.



A note about spelling:
Generally, this site has been written in the Queen's English.  Thus you will see, for example,  colour instead of the American color, centre and metre instead of the American center and meter, Modellers instead of the American Modelers, and so forth.  However, North American terminology has been used in preference to British terminology, for example, tie instead of the British sleeper, coach instead of the British carriage, and ground (electrical) instead of the British earth etc. etc.  This has no deep meaning and does not reflect anything.  It is just the way I did it.
-The Trainman


this page created 13 October 1999
updated 15 June 2000
last updated 4 June 2008