Maryland resident and MER Chesapeake Division member Mike–Shylanski loves the Baltimore and Ohio and Chessie System Railroads. He has been both an HO and N scale modeler. He is a member of an HO modular layout club and he enjoys running trains at public gatherings. He has written articles for several railroad historical societies and the NMRA, and he gives clinics, mostly on freight cars, at railroad prototype modeler meets, NMRA gatherings, and railroad-themed conventions.
