Hi,
Whatever happened to Bob Hegge and his O scale Crooked Mountain Lines?
Jack
I believe he died but treat that as speculation until it is verified.
looking harder but he passed away, his layout was O scale mountain electric, featured in several MRR mags.
I have no clue on the disposition of the layout.
I recall seeing something in MR about his wife arranging the sale of his collection.
Joe
His model railroad has been commerated by the NMRA with a car in their Heritage car series (for well known deceased model railroaders) available to NMRA members in all scales (This is the last car in the series available in all scales). https://www.nmra.org/
Enjoy
Paul
I vagely remember the stuff for sale, I think in mr mag.
Count me as one who recalls the photos of CML in the model mags. Also, I’m curious what happend to the layout, its locomotives, and cars.
Yep.
Another fan here. Too bad about Bob. He died what, 10 or more years ago?
Crooked Mountain Lines was a superb model railroad built by a very talented modeler. Almost made me want to switch to O Scale and run everything under wire. I always read his articles even though they didn’t pertain to my interests - and I always learned something from them.
This brings to mind another then sort of famous Model RR that has disappeared, almost without a trace…The Duram and Southern of Jim Paine. It was another Dayton area “Lichen Belt” railroad much in the spirit of the V&O…in fact we wers eeing it in late sixties issues of RMC and MR before teh V&O really hit the pages regulalrly in the early seventies.
It was a well done operational concept private raod name and the track plan was amazingly simple. After teh V&O became the model railroad to feature teh D&S queitly went away…
Bob Hegge’s Crooked Mountain Lines was one of the first US layouts I ever read about, and doubtless it had some influence on me switching to model American trains many years later. There was a section on it in one of those “Encyclopedia of Model Railways” type books published here in the UK sometime in the early 1980’s, I remember reading it as a teenager and being inspired. I think I still have the book on the bookshelf.
Sorry to hear that Bob’s passed, he was a talented modeller, and his layout was a great advert for the hobby.
If you have the title and author, could you post it? I saw that book a few years ago at an open house, leafed through it, and was delighted to see the pictures of the CML (as well as some of the other layouts). I didn’t write the title down, and I’ve been trying to find it ever since.
There are (73) Model Railroader articles by Bob Hegge including an interview with one of “the fathers” of model traction, Bill Clouser…
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext="HEGGE%2C+BOB"&MAG=MR&output=3&sort=2
Bob’s first M.R. article (April 1957) was shades of John Armstrong with “loads-in & loads-out” but from a traction perspective…
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=I&MAG=MR&MO=4&YR=1957&output=3&sort=2
Bob Hegge contributed a dozen+ articles on the “Saga of Crooked Mountain Lines” for the N.M.R.A. Bulletin from 1974-1977…
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext="HEGGE%2C+BOB"&MAG=BL&output=3&sort=2
These M.R. & N.M.R.A articles would certainly make a nice “Best of Bob Hegge” special issue.
I was able to contact Bob Hegges widow and she confirmed that the CML layout was sold as a whole, but could not remember who bought it. Does anyone know if it is still being used by someone?
Jack