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Looking at the track closeups and the closeups of the equipment, this was some fine modeling in any decade, even now...My understanding is that the layout has been preserved and is in a P:48 museum. It belonged to Bill Clouser, a name familiar to may back in the day. This would also fit in the two rail scale category so it was a toss up as to where this film belonged..

 

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St. Louis is my hometown and I've been researching the old streetcar system  - tracks ran right by my house. Some of the suburban trolleys headed west not far from me also. The old Frisco yards are close by too so I'm pretty lucky to be near a lot of rail road history. I understand Bill was from St. Louis so maybe his layout reflected some of nearby locations too.

 

Love the shot of the kid looking at the camera and smiling.

 

Really cool stuff - thanks for sharing.

thanks for posting this, a very historic piece as Bill Clouser was an amazing modeler. i have one of his resin 50 foot box cars and considering the time frame that he designed this it truly was outstanding. his coupler design is still being made today. Bob Hegge was also an outstanding modeler and his Crooked Mountain Lines was featured in Model Railroader back in the 70's.

Back in 1966 or 67 I was in St Louis and was invited to an operating session at the home of one of the group of O scale traction modellers.  Clouser wasn't there that evening....but Hegge was.  They showed me modelling I at the tender age of 23 never dreamed of.  Among the wonders they showed me was a freight motor equipped with a flywheel the size of a sash weight.  They set it going then shut off the juice.  That car continued rolling at least 25 or more feet before it stopped.  Next they got it rolling again, cut off the juice and stopped it by holding out his finger.  The wheels just kept turning until he stopped them.

       The things that impressed me about this video were the facility "back polling" through switches and around turns, the track work with lap switches with straight track running through them and the general level of modelling.  No sir, they did'nt show nearly all their wonders on this little video.  I fear much has been lost since then.  Odd

 

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