Pelle became a model railroader in the early 1990s, when he visited a specialty bookstore in Copenhagen, Denmark, and found a basket full of Model Railroader magazines. In the years since, he has built four layouts and a couple of dioramas. After his Tehachapi layout was finished, he wrote his first layout story, published in the March 1998 issue and featured on the cover. It was the first 17 covers on MR. Pelle has also written six books for Kalmbach, his first book, “Mountain to Desert,” was based on his second layout.
