--- In [email protected], "Tom Hawley" <t.hawley@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Werre
>
> . . . . . . . . . the Reg Bilidio (sp) layout in Canada. I've mentioned his
> name before on this list. From what I could see much of it would have
> equaled the most famous layouts of the time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> .
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> Reg Bilodeau's layout was on the layout tour at 1976 National Convention in
> Ottawa. My recollections include a movie made with a little movie camera
> (was there "video" in 76?) on a flatcar pushed around the layout and a
> roundhouse with internal over-head lighting. One bulb had burned out and
> rather than trying to get his hands inside to change the bulb, he had put in
> an S scale man on an S scale stepladder, about to change the bulb.
>
> And there was a lot more impressive stuff.
>
> Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
Tom, I was there also, what an impressive layout! It wasn't big by some
standards but all the attention to detail....! What I remember most was his
lighted high level switchstands, lighted from beneath the benchwork, perhaps
fiber optics? The kicker though was that they flickered as if lit by kerosene!
He had small rotating discs with random slots cut in to pass over the light
source giving that realistic flicker! His WM shay was the "Coupe De Grace"....!
Bud Rindfleisch
>
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