Well Bill you have done it again.
What a wonderful Christmas layout, on the floor under a Christmas tree. Very
effective and it takes me, possibly all of us old timers, back into the 1930
-40's when our parents set up Christmas gardens. My father ran Lionel and
Marx and his temp. layout always had a humongous mountain made out of old
white sheets and flour starch. Even when I became infatuated with the train
disease again in 1962 American flyer modelers where everywhere around me.
Seeing the Pennsylvania K-5 (?) K-6 (?) running, reminded me of Bob Runk
who engineered those locomotives back in those days and how he would talk
about all his railroad experiences. Bob shelves in his basement were
overflowing with America Flyer trains, and in many cases he repainted them.
Now BOB wasn't an excellent modeler and his work made the collectors cry.
But he sure did have a lot of American Flyer trains.
Bob Runk is the person who got all the central Pennsylvania S Gaugers (who
had subscribed to the S Gauge Herald) to meet at his house one Tuesday
evening to see if we could set up a club. We did, it was called the central
Pennsylvania S Gaugers. We were a very active group back then and there were
no scale modelers in the group of about four dozen members. (John Long was
as near as we got to Scale, he ran hi-rail models.)
We sure have come a long way since then, but the nostalgic AF sounds, the
Chuff-Chuff's, and seeing the trains run around the Christmas tree brought
back many fond memories of those times.
Thank you Bill, and to Donna for putting up with us!
"S"ee Ya,
Bill (Fraley)
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