FROM OGR PUBLISHER ALAN ARNOLD:
A Memorial Membership has been made to honor Dale by:
- Rich Melvin
- Peter Gentieu (PGentieu)
- Dave Garman
- Martin Eibeck (MartyE)
Dale's legacy of electronic work in the hobby can be found at Trainfacts.
Original Post
Replies sorted oldest to newest
Very nice. He was a great help here. I miss him.
Dale was a great guy! Talked with him at NAB a few times. He taught us all a lot about TMCC signal propagation! He is missed. Thanks to OGR for giving us the opportunity to remember these folks!
I was fortunate to meet Dale a few times at NAB, very knowledgeable guy!
Some know this, but if you visited Disney in the pre digital days you would have heard dales work in places like the hall of presidents. He and some other audio engineers I know built a continuous loop bin type tape player that ran the audio for many attractions. Very unique at the time, now simple to do with a raspberry pi and some freeware.
Beautiful honorarium Rich!!! VERY WELL DONE...
This should become a 'sticky' for all to see in perpetuity.
@Dave Garman posted:Beautiful honorarium Rich!!! VERY WELL DONE...
This should become a 'sticky' for all to see in perpetuity.
Dave
OGR has set it up that you can support the forum by making a supporting member contribution in a members name that has passed on. It's a great way of honoring the memory of those folks that have given us so much in sharing their knowledge and more importantly their friendship.
I miss Dale, too. He contributed a lot to the hobby and was a really nice guy. I used to make a point of visiting him at the Cal Stewart meets.
Dale was an upstanding person and is missed by us all. Who can forget trains running upside down!
@MartyE posted:Dave
OGR has set it up that you can support the forum by making a supporting member contribution in a members name that has passed on. It's a great way of honoring the memory of those folks that have given us so much in sharing their knowledge and more importantly their friendship.
Marty - this was a great suggestion to make. Thank-you!
-Greg
It was thanks to Dale that I got into command control. I had bought a used TMCC set and it didn't work with my TMCC locomotives, so I was very unimpressed. I stumbled upon his website and post a post that described exactly how my locomotives behaved, so I followed his instructions. Everything worked great once the adjustments were made and I have been hooked ever since. Would probably still be running conventionally otherwise.
@Dave Garman posted:Beautiful honorarium Rich!!! VERY WELL DONE...
Thanks, but I can't take the credit for this. This was all Marty Eibeck's idea, and it was a great one. He deserves the credit for these wonderful tributes.
There are other departed members honored in this forum:
If there is a departed member that you would like to honor here, read this.
Here's a general H U G E thank you to Marty E, and the OGR Adm. for allocating a thread for remembering these gents! Nice to see some "bro caring" in this world. Never met Dale...but I was hoping to tell him his upside down loop...with trains running...had me in awe..still do!!
I never met Dale but he seemed like such a great guy on the forum. Always willing to help folks with information on the technical side. I enjoyed reading his posts.
Thank you Marty. That was a really great idea to memorialize fallen forum members.
Dale was the TMCC go too guy with problems. He helped me to master the tmcc signal on my home layout. Another friend I miss talking too, thanks for all of your knowledge Dale. I always loved his ending in every post,
A product of Cleveland public schools.
Dale was a fine gentleman who was always ready to help anyone experiencing electronic issues with their trains or accessories. Though he was very knowledgeable he tried to put the repair suggestions in terms that non electrical engineers could understand and follow.
As many have stated, he will be sorely missed.
In 2005, Dale stopped here in Amarillo and visited me at my office at BNSF. I took him over to the locomotive facility and the signal shop, and we had a very nice visit. He had a car full of things, en route to a train show. He was a fine gentleman. That day remains a very good memory.
Didn't Dale bring one of his upside down layouts to York....maybe 2012 or so? I believe I did see one there.
Yes, Dale brought his upsidedown train to York and displayed it in front of the room we shared at the Billy Budd (Holiday Inn) I don't remember the year.
Dale was a great guy. Always willing to help with his knowledge. When I was having TMCC issues he help me out tremendously. Every time I run my layout I see his MANCO label on an item he sent me. I think of him often.
