Welcome to my new website! This is the home page for various sections of my hosted platform, which reflect at different websites I have for several ventures. This includes my model railroad layouts, my travel adventures, sites for railroads of my friends, event and organization sites, both past and present. All these are on Marek Mountain. And links to other sites I maintain separately. My name is Frolin Marek and I live near Boerne, Texas in 2023. Lived in San Antonio the 38 years before. Born and raised in Del Rio, in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande river. My father had an automotive repair shop and largest wrecker in Val Verde County. I grew up riding in a wrecker and sleeping on the front seat at 1am, at an accident site along a country highway. He got in to cranes and forklifts and motor graders, and when I was 10 years old, he change the name to Jerry & Frolin’s Crane & Wrecker Service, because I was helping on wrecker calls and running cranes and forklifts on job sites. My mother drove the truck crane to the job site, before I had a ‘hardship’ license at 15yr. The A/C company crews did the chains, I ran the crane that put the new 3-5 ton unit on the business roof. We had a small farm/ranch when I grew up. The Southern Pacific Railroad mainline ran in front of our farm. I had an HO model railroad and general luv of trains. My layout was in the lobby of the shop, so I entertained customers by running trains. I did ‘open house’ with a layout long ago (ha). A hunting trip with my father to Colorado when I was 8 years old, passing thru Chama, NM, lead me to a deep interest in Colorado narrow gauge railroading. Mountains, trestles, tunnels, steam trains, just like what I saw in western movies. Late 70’s, the Radio Shack near the house, got in the first TRS-80 Model 1 computer. The ‘trash 80’ was the nickname by many non-computer and mainframe users. In 1984, I started a dial-up via phone modem, public accessible service called… Frolin’s Bulletin Board Service. This was a simple message board, where people would dial in and post messages or read and reply to other postings. This ran on a TRS-80 Model 4 computer in my home, even with the move to San Antonio. This used a 2nd land line which I still have today. Years later… around 1991, my first web pages went on the world wide wide platform. Over the years, my site expanded to include other “websites” to showcase model railroads of friends. These are sections of my site, under the Frolin .Net account. Today this includes around 24 domain names (with 15 or more in past, from past event sites I hosted) for direct links to those sites, with almost 48,000 files and 10gb of space, hosted on my platform. In 2024, I started redesigning my various pages, to modernize the websites to better adapt with new features and uses, including adapting to visitor’s devices (ie: wide monitor vs tablet vs smartphone). Along with handling files and photos (20 pictures in slideshow vs 1 at a time viewing). Some material will remain old style, like pictures taken 20 years ago in 800x600 resolution can not be updated easily. This modernization will take some time… Over decades, I have out-lasted a couple software packages and today even new modern Hosting Server protocols, so constant changes and new things to adapt to. Thank you for visiting Marek Mountain, the new home page for Frolin .Net, a place for the various material I am hosting/sharing over my web hosting platform. Frolin