Where the Iron Horse meets the Carriage Horse

Welcome to our website

We are Peter and Mary Jane Atonna and live in the small, northern Arizona, rural community of Paulden.

We've created this site in order to share with you a little about ourselves as well as our interests.  Both of us have been blessed with lifelong passions, horses with Mary Jane and trains with Peter.

Now both being retired we have the time and energy to indulge these passions.  Therefore you will see much of this site will be about our train and horse related activities.

In Mary Jane's case, her involvement with horses is focused on carriage driving, particularly competitive carriage driving.  Peter, on the other hand, likes almost anything that runs on steel rails, and much of his time is spent on his model railroad.

We welcome comments and communications about our activities, so be sure to use the email link to reach us.

Here is some current news:

+ what a strange spring here in the Arizona north country.  After El Nino blessed us with over 7" of precipitation from New Years Day to the first week in March, I thought we would have one bumper wildflower season.  Not to be.  After the rains stopped the winds blew and the cold kept up with freezing temps into the last week of May.

Even our usual wildflowers didn't show.  But we got a couple of pleasent surprises, Desert Mariposa bloomed all over our higher ground as well as other places around the area.  Click the photo for some more of what we did see this spring:

+ Big changes in the train room.  Although the prewar train collection is still here, the layout is no more.  It is being replaced by an extension of the high rail layout onto the table once holding the prewar layout.  Click here to see a couple of progress photos.  Also, check out the layout plan to see the current plan for the high rail layout.

+ Interested in Prewar accessories?  We are selling the accessories from that layout.  Lionel and American Flyer, O and Standard gauge.  The Leland Detriot monorail and a Buddy L Industrial train and roundhouse.  If you are looking for something, email us for a list of the inventory and prices.  We also have photos of the items and can send you those you are interested in.

+ One of our photos of the trainroom's new Best Friend of Charleston diorama is the cover of the Train Collectors Association Quarterly magazine.  Click here to see it.

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Peter & Mary Jane Atonna
Paulden, Arizona