Nick Kane is in the planning stages for a layout depicting the Sacramento Valley RR, circa 1856. In this Part 1 of a three part series to this Episode 7 of Turntable Discussions, Nick shares how he got into this marvelous hobby and his approach to scratch building an HO scale model of the SVRR locomotive Robinson relying primarily on a photo of the locomotive. Part 2 will feature his actual fabrication technique.