Mike Byle

Mike–Byle has been a train enthusiast his whole life. He was born into a family where his father was a Trainmaster and his grandfather was a brakeman with many other relatives working on the railroad. He worked on track gang as a college student and later professionally as a civil engineer designing railroad bridges and track. He received his first American Flyer train at the age of 3, and has modeled in all scales from N to G. He is the owner of CB Train Junction train shop and is a published author on railroad modeling. He has been an active member of the National Association of S-Gaugers and NMRA. He has conducted clinics on many topics and has won modeling awards. He writes a blog and has published articles in the Dispatch, S Gaugian, and S Scale Resource, and New York Central Modeler. He also restores and repairs classic toy trains and accessories to bring them back to life and creates custom, unique models.