Carey Williams posted: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
Carey Williams posted:
Hello Minton fans ....
Brian I'll take some photos tonight and start a new posting for Model Structures tomorrow ...tune in
A friend suggested reading the Minton article in Model Railroad June 1966...... bingo many of Minton's engines are pictured ...including #3837 .....built in 1934 as one of Minton first engines whilst living on the left coast.
I'll share one page here as not to raise the lawyers eyes about copy-write material ....current ebay prices for a MR June 1966 will set you back about 1.00
With luck more articles will surface.
Cheers Carey
Having grown up in Chicago near the Museum of Science & Industry I spent many an hour enjoying the big O gauge layout as in a kid in the 1970s. At that time the layout still had passenger trains, which I assume must have been F-Units pulling Santa Fe hi-level trains of that era (for some reason I seem to recall seeing single level/ hi-level transition cars). Another neat thing about the layout was that the walls along the outside were genuine stainless steel fluted passenger car siding. Here are some photos of the Cronkhite 1938 Santa Fe Chief equipment at San Diego Model Railroad Museum (taken in 2008). They're really beautiful models, and I was pleased to see them on display. Somewhere I also have a few photos of some of his steam locomotive models prior to their donation to the model railroad museum, having visited one of his relatives in the Los Angeles area back when they were looking to identify a home for the models.
