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Model Railroader covers in my life !

keyroutekenkeyroutekenOGR Forum Member

Hi Everybody--  Just a historical look back to a time when my late grandfather was popular with Al Kalmbach and Kalmbach Publishing Company...

 

Here is the LINK to the January-1939 cover story written by "Boomer Pete"  (Al Kalmbach himself) ...

 

http://ibls.org/mediawiki/inde...with_Victor_Shattock

 

 

Photo 1.   JANUARY--1939  MR     SP 2422 in 1/2-inch scale Live Steam emerges from the tunnel on Vic Shattock's basement railroad--Oakland, CA.

 

Photo 2.   APRIL--1951  MR   Vic Shattock (right) pours water into the boiler of one of his 1/2-inch scale live steam locomotives during a firing-up procedure, as friend Al Forst (left) looks on .

 

Photo 3.   SP 2422 on Vic's turntable (55 inches in length).  Engine was built in 1929--now adorns my Dining Room in a glass case just a stones throw from my O-gauge layout and Lionel//MTH collection.

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The rail was T-shaped, SP  110-pound Standard, brass, produced and rolled for my grandfather by Rollin Lobaugh.  Also brass spikes, tie plates (4-hole) and rail joiners with simulated bolts.  They were very good personal friends!
 
The basement in Vic's Victorian home was approx 45 x 32 feet with 9-foot ceilings.  William K. Walthers chartered a train to bring NMRA convention attendees to the 1947 convention in Oakland, CA.
 
GRAYLINE sightseeing buses transported NMRA folks from the Leamington Hotel in downtown Oakland to my grandpa's house.  I was only about six months old !
The neighbors wondered what the heck was going on.  The place was stuffed.
Bill Walthers, Linn Westcott, Bob Bast of NMRA, Larry Sagle of B&O RR, Whit Towers of NMRA, Al Kalmbach, John Allen of Monterey and hundreds of others have all been in my grandpa's basement.  I have the "guest book" that folks signed!  A reghular Whos-Who of the model railroad fraternity !
 
KRK
 
 
Originally Posted by Scratchbuilder1-48:

awesome ! Look at the rail size , pretty scale looking .

 

Have you ever fired the engine since you had it ?

Also , must have had a big basement (yowsa)

 

keyroutekenkeyroutekenOGR Forum Member
One more thing--  that loco was sold in 1952 for $ 75.00 !!  40-years later, in 1992, I persuaded an International collector (after much persuasion) to sell it back to me for $ 2000.00 !!   So after 40-years, it is back in the family !
I ran it on compressed air and the running gear was fine-not frozen up or anything.  I do NOT dare put steam in it because of possible metal fatigure (it is 86-years old) and the fact that his copper boilers in the very early days were only soft-soldered.  Silver soldered boilers came a few years later !
 
KRK
 
Originally Posted by keyrouteken:
The rail was T-shaped, SP  110-pound Standard, brass, produced and rolled for my grandfather by Rollin Lobaugh.  Also brass spikes, tie plates (4-hole) and rail joiners with simulated bolts.  They were very good personal friends!
 
The basement in Vic's Victorian home was approx 45 x 32 feet with 9-foot ceilings.  William K. Walthers chartered a train to bring NMRA convention attendees to the 1947 convention in Oakland, CA.
 
GRAYLINE sightseeing buses transported NMRA folks from the Leamington Hotel in downtown Oakland to my grandpa's house.  I was only about six months old !
The neighbors wondered what the heck was going on.  The place was stuffed.
Bill Walthers, Linn Westcott, Bob Bast of NMRA, Larry Sagle of B&O RR, Whit Towers of NMRA, Al Kalmbach, John Allen of Monterey and hundreds of others have all been in my grandpa's basement.  I have the "guest book" that folks signed!  A reghular Whos-Who of the model railroad fraternity !
 
KRK
 
 
Originally Posted by Scratchbuilder1-48:

awesome ! Look at the rail size , pretty scale looking .

 

Have you ever fired the engine since you had it ?

Also , must have had a big basement (yowsa)

 

 

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