During dealer set up Friday evening, a man was trying to reach his brother via cell phone. The one who had yet to arrive was coming from Omaha with a trailer of kits. Later that night, both unloaded and set on nine(9) tables approximately 700 kits of rolling stock. Kits in plain white boxes with black lettering up to and including about eight PRB kits and a few Atlas boxes. Many brass kits, a few plastic kits. Their father died last year and they heard The March Meet was the best venue, sold about twenty percent of the items and are considering calling Stout Auctions.
I asked how they determined a price for each kit. One replied they had some receipts (some as old as the 1950), some information via the Internet and some from a dealers. Several sellers came by to help by gathering kit A, B and C as a possible logical progression of purchasing a group of kits. It was like a family coming together during the time of a crisis. A big job had to be done and people kicked in to help.
Sunday afternoon the show organizers arranged for next years sign up forms to be distributed so interested parties would know the dates. Along with advertisements in two rail magazines it will not be necessary to make an announcement on an OGR Forum that the event starts in xx number of days.
John Mateyko in Lansing, ILL
