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The Freedom Central has long been my prized possession. Unfortunately my job as a locomotive engineer, my efforts to build my new workshop, not to mention my three wonderful kids and beautiful wife have made it nearly impossible to also spend time on my website. A while back I had attempted to begin upgrading my meager web skills to be HTML4.0/CSS compliant with the eventual goal of XHTML compliance. Hopefully this new page means I'm slowly getting back on track.
While this page is extremely basic, I managed to download the tools to make and upload it to my server, as well as make the banner in a matter of a couple hours, cramped by a deadline for departing for work. Never fear, it WILL be upgraded soon.
PLEASE consider coming back in a couple weeks to see the new home of the Freedom Central!
- J.D.
The Freedom Central was created in 1998, simply as a means to justify adding a model of a Santa Fe 3400-class 4-6-2 pacific on a layout of a railroad that never ran a diesel bigger than a General Electric 65-ton Centercab. The theory started as a 4.5mile shortline connection between the road I intended to model and a gravel pit. Now more than ten years later, I have a house and family and am hoping to lay down rails this spring. Watch here as the "real" Freedom Central is born. This will cover the construction of the entire railroad empire, aside from the rolling stock.
While the Freedom Central has been around for better than a decade, my ideas for the Juniata Falls Locomotive Works were born in late 2009 when we moved into our house in Central Pennsylvania, just north of Altoona and the ex-P.R.R. Juniata Locomotive Works. I planned on turning our shed into my workshop and needed a good name for my "backshop". I always liked the name "Juniata" but didn't want to userp the real works' name. Considering the rural nature of my house, Juniata Falls seemed like a good name. This section will cover all my rolling stock, locomotives, trial paint schemes and railroad drawings.
JDG Industries is the name I envisioned as my "holding company". I had at one time hoped to pull off a stockholder coup on the shortline I used to work for and had created JDGX as a shield against my identity. Then I decided my goal will be to buy my own private passenger coach and figured my initials would be good for the car. This section of my website will include info on me, my family, my amateur railroad photography and other miscellaneous stuff.
In addition to being a model railroader, I'm also an avid fan of Star Trek, specifically starship technology. With progress on my own fanfiction story "The Next Voyage", I needed to craft a name for an engineering station to play a major important roll. Newport News, home to Northrop Grumman's shipbuilding drydocks, has long been the birth-place of the mightest of America's warships; from nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class attack submarines to the new Gerald Ford-class supercarriers which will replace the famed Nimitz class carriers in the coming decade. Set in 2408, "The Next Voyage" features as the home of Starfleet's ASDB engineering & prototype development station, located at the fifth Lagrange Point, Newport News Engineering Station is responsible for the greatest advances in starship design theory.