Rob Shaubach posted:I didn't realize Caryl P was into MESG, as I know of him mostly from his book on Lionel Std Gauge freight car variations.
You're right, prewar Lionel is is strong point, and he wrote the book on the 200 series. He had quite a bit of MESG, but in recent years he has decided to downsize and concentrate just on the prewar. He called it "purifying the collection" (!) So he has sold quite a bit of MESG, and I got some of it from him; the Daniels set, also a RichArt Ives set he was selling. He was my reason for frequenting the Red Hall before I knew you had a table there. He still has his big layout. He runs the whole Standard Gauge layout on DC. Awfully nice guy. Picture taken by Arno in 2013 on Caryl's layout:
