Hi Bob My inquiry, stated not too lucidly, was really about Mr Hall and not the origins of the kit. We're a special group in a special scale and I thought maybe I was holding a tangible connection to one of S scale's pioneers. Thanks everyone for your responses.
Cheers Jim Martin >________________________________ > From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:36:15 AM >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Robert Hall > > > > Jim, >The only Halls that I have heard about were John, who made decals and another gentlemen with the same last name who owned The Hobby Shop in Vermont--relatively speaking, he might have been just down the hall from your man! <G> > >I've mentioned it before that I own a very nicely done Kinsman passenger train once owned by a Ron Koch. He might have been part of the Bristol Club. The train was published in the original Herald and apparently won the Best of Show at some convention. He also had started several more cars and I think he had a great AF conversion to pull the train. I would also be interested in why someone who built such a great series of models would apparently just quit. > >Bob Werre >PhotoTraxx > > > >. It apparently held a Train Stuff 24953 coach. It was mailed from Train >Stuff in New Brunswick, NJ to a Robert T. Hall of Belmont MA. >> >> >>Is he still around? Did anyone on the list know him? No particular reason I >>guess other than it doesn't feel right to chuck out a bit of someone else's >>modeling history without knowing something about them. I don't know if you >>call that archaeology, history, being nosey, or just plain goofy. I didn't >>get the name of the person selling it, but maybe he has family in southern >>Ontario. Who knows? >> >> >>Cheers >>Jim Martin > > > >
