I’ve always been fascinated by model trains, but I never had any at home growing up. On summer holidays, I visited my cousin, who had an HO scale 4 x 8-foot layout with an oval of track. My cousin and I would spend our days running the trains at full throttle.
The years passed, and my engineering studies, focused on micro-technology, didn’t leave me any time to think about building a layout. But in 2009, after I built my house, the idea came back. Fascinated by small things and not having much room, I started drawing track plans for an N scale layout.
I’m not a fan of the local French or European railway equipment, and I love big U.S. diesel locomotives. One day when doing some internet research, I discovered Z scale, which I hadn’t heard of before. It was love at first sight.