We went down to Dixie Union Station on Saturday to pick up our MTH Erie Angus Freight Set and Rocky had quite a pile of older Atlas O diesels and some cars.... We found a couple of rebuilt reefers we didn't have in the stack, so that was terrific.... Rocky told us the Atlas O models came from an estate of a local collector / operator that had quite a large switching layout, and then he showed us how the guy had written in the foam with a black Sharpe information about the model - like it's orientation in the box, in the event someone had to repack it, and the number he had assigned the engine in TMCC... very interesting and very considerate..... we bought a couple - one of the black topped EL C424's and this Milwaukee RS-1 - the sister of the one we have..... Putting them away at our place, I couldn't help feeling connected to this fellow collector, and I am glad that I have some of his handwriting in with our stuff..... Anybody else buy some of his stuff?
....and RIP my fellow Train Cronie.
