{"id":4,"date":"2017-02-03T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harlemrivercrossways.com\/blog\/contact-us\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:42:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.harlemrivercrossways.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m your host, Andreas Werder, an IT Consultant in Manhattan, New York. I started modeling in N scale in 2015 and I&#8217;m still learning. The CNJ Bronx Terminal, which I started in mid 2016, is my first real layout. Apart from railroad modeling, I&#8217;m an avid runner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have launched this blog more than half a year into&nbsp;the CNJ Bronx Terminal project and after I had finished a good portion of the raw&nbsp;track work. I wanted to make sure that I&#8217;d be able to deal with the&nbsp;numerous challenges of the project. While most of the blog content is or will be written in a&nbsp;prospective style, the initial contributions are retrospective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"acknowledgements\">Acknowledgements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m indebted to Philip M. 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