{"id":3277,"date":"2026-04-01T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/?page_id=3277"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:47:09","slug":"about-dan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/about-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dan Obermeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dan-Obermeyer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3276\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My love of trains started in a barber shop. When I was probably five or six, trips to the barber shop in town meant watching steam locomotives arrive at the depot as the barber shop was track side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First model train was at 10, a Marx steam train on a 4 by 4 table top. My first Railfan trip after I got my driver\u2019s license was to follow the Washington Idaho and Montana railroad from end to end with a fellow modeler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modeling stopped when collage started and I didn\u2019t restart until one day when I was shopping for a sail boat I noticed HO models for sale in the corner of the boat sales room.&nbsp;&nbsp;A Round Robin group and a modular group followed. The modular group morphed into a club layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As retirement neared we built our home with a train room over the garage. It is still under construction depicting western Montana around Butte and Helena in the mid-40\u2019s. That allows me to model the railroads I grew up with: Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Great Northern, and Union Pacific. Plus representing the local roads: Butte, Anaconda &amp; Pacific along with the last narrow gauge built in the US, the Montana Southern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Railroad history is of great interest to me. As is hand laying track and collecting brass models of my favorite roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been a member of R.E.D. since 1987 when I first moved to California. R.E.D. has been a significant part of my model railroading, as I live in Lake County where there are not too many modelers.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n<p>Views: 9<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love of trains started in a barber shop. When I was probably five or six, trips to the barber shop in town meant watching steam locomotives arrive at the depot as the barber shop was track side. First model&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/about-dan\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Dan Obermeyer<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3277\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrnmra.net\/redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}