Overview of Ron Kuykendall’s Five Model Railroads

Ron Kuykendall is a model builder who has five beautiful layouts. Three are HO standard gauge, the fourth is HON3, and the fifth is SN3. So how has Ron managed to do so much? Well, he's been in the hobby since 1941. He's a bachelor who spends time and money on the hobby, plus, he's not afraid to try new approaches to modeling. Two of the railroads, the Western Eclectic and the Sud Pacifico Con Otros, are large, but the other three are small diorama-type railroads. The shelf railroads prove everybody has room for a layout. Ron loves to exactly duplicate prototype rolling-stock structures and locomotives on his railroads. His large photo collection allows him to do this. He's been taking photos for years and was there for the end of steam. According to Ron, model building is the glue that holds the hobby together. He is able to build kits using just the pictures and drawings without even bothering to read the instructions. Hi, I'm Allen Keller and this is Ron Kuykendall, the man responsible for all of these marvelous models. Ron, your main enjoyment seems to be model building. It most certainly is, Allen, and what we're surrounded by here is the fruits of that type of labor over the years, a combination of natural and man-made scenery surrounding the rolling stock and the multi-power that holds it, and backed up ultimately by backdrop painting.