Friday, August 8, 2014
Ivan's rolling stock
see oldest post for pricing. some have boxes. The SEABOARD SYSTEM is a Lionel. I think one of the tenders belongs with the MIKADO.
Ivans trains (maybe)
now the trains? Mill is hand made. Train shed is about 8 feet long, top is hinged, 3 tracks wide inside.
Ivan Smith Trains For Sale
Gerry Smith is selling Ivan's trains, buildings, track and bridges. I will attempt to post pictures of all the stuff. Contact me at BL2GSCALE@GMAIL.COM with any questions. We have not disassembled the layout yet, but there is over 700 feet of brass track with many wide radius remote LGB turnouts. She will accept $40 for each turnout, $40 for rolling stock (metal wheels and Aristo couplers), $150 for the engines ($300 for the Mikado), $25 per building, $35 for the wood bridges ($100 for the metal bridge). Individual track pieces at $4 per foot with reduced price for larger quantity. There are 20 dwarf alberta spruces (that's a 11" binder next to the plant)
Remembering John Jackson
No one I
know has a smile as broad as John Jackson's smile. Had he been with us today (and perhaps he
was), that ready smile would have been broader still, as an overflowing crowd of
friends and family joined in Yarmouth to celebrate his life. Many members of the MGRS came to share in
remembering John with Gigi and her family.
John's son, Johnnie, spoke for all of us when he recalled John's warmth,
his humor, and his capacity for hard work.
John was a lifelong patriot who once served in the Signal Corps. In a moving ceremony, an Army honor guard presented
an American flag to Gigi in his honor.
Those of us in
the MGRS who knew John might say we knew him in his later years. But even if John had lived into his Nineties,
I doubt if he ever would have had "later years." John was always young, always as curious and
inventive as a child, and always filled with wonder. This winter, when we visit or operate the Holiday
Mall display, we'll be seeing John's ideas and inspirations. More than this, in the sounds of the trains,
the smell of the smoke and ozone, and the bright eyes of children who gather
around to watch, we can remember the joyous man who made it possible, a lucky
man who greeted each day of his life as if it were Christmas morning.
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