Gerry Hoffmann spent 35 years working for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before retiring in 2019, and he's been modeling railroads almost as long as he worked on the real ones. Based out of his basement workshop in Duluth, he specializes in HO scale recreations of Great Northern and Northern Pacific operations from the 1950s and 60s. His approach to the hobby is hands-on and practical-he believes in scratch-building when you can and kitbashing when you can't. When he's not at the workbench, Gerry volunteers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and spoils his three grandkids with trips to see real trains whenever possible.