Hello all ....
The photo of the Minton Mike along with a few other photos came from the curator Alyssa Thompson, at the SDMRM .... below a Minton tender and the shovel nose diesel ...also in the museum .... ...total holdings 25 of Minton pieces ....unknown (yet ) what the entire Minton collection consists of ......Bob please jump in the plane to avoid the traffic and land in the parking lot to ask Alyssa .... to see ...and please photograph all the Minton pieces .... or wait a few days and with luck I'll get more photos from the librarian ....
MSI did not own the layout till very late in the game ... so with ownership of Santa Fe ...the old equipment was returned to the RR .....as I've been told ....MSI has several storage areas ... I've been in a few but no sign of Minton pieces .. at one time back in the 60's perhaps 70's there were some O scale pieces in the room as you exit the coal mine in the basement ....they are long gone ( at least from view) .....
The steel mill that was on the MSI layout was originally used on the NYC 1939 World's Fair layout ...
Dan thank you for the photo of the extensive O scale display for the public to gaze on in Sacramento ...
Minton in the 60's ? let a local club "borrow" his O scale pieces to run at the club layout ......rumor..many of the pieces were never seen again ... ...at least by Minton ....
4103 is a Santa Fe Bershire ...so perhaps a Berk lives in San Diego also .... or tenders got switched ...note on tender the reverse lever on top ....same holes are found on my tender ....
Cheers Carey
