Reply to "Origin of the term "hi-rail""

Tom StoltzOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

@EscapeRocks posted:
Tom,
This is a fantastic post. Not just for the Gargraves ad, but the entire newsletter itself. I just spent some time looking atthe pictures of reader's layouts in it, and did some searching on the names. Lots of amazing family stories. Some good, (one of the layouts showin in Chicago was to blocks from where my dad grew up around the same time frame); some sad (the little boy, Gary, with the surprised look passed away in 1964 at age 21).
Then the how to articles, such as making your own rotary coal dump. That was a fun and informative read.
Thanks for posing this!

That happened to me, too. Really neat to see the 'old' stuff. I also found the entire archive for Model Builder. I've glanced at the Jan/Feb 1937 issue. It is amazing how they did the modeling with what they had available at the time.

https://trainlife.com/pages/mo...der-magazine-archive

Tom Stoltz

in Maine

12/4/2012:34 PM

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