In the bio-blurb at the end of the article on steam locomotive weathering in this month’s issue, it stated that Mr Hoover has gone from modeling the Santa Fe to modeling the Norfolk and Western in 1953.
Is this for real or did MR slip in an “April” issue two-fer?
-George
No George,
There’s no foolin’ on that one. Gary’s Santa Fe layout is no more and he’s now working on modeling the Norfolk & Western. I believe he wants to model some of the scenes photographed by the great O. Winston Link.
So long,
Andy
Thanks Andy!
I’ll look forward to seeing coverage of his new layout. My favorite O. Winston Link photo is the one of the drive in movie at night! It will be interesting to see how Gary pulls that one off!
-George
I model the Santa Fe, I wonder what Mr Hoover did with all his buildings,locos,etc. I’d sure like his F units and great roundhouse!! I happen to live fairly close to him, maybe I could do a local pickup.
Tim,
if Gary has any stuff to sell, I’d bet he will be at the Boeing show at Queeny Park next Saturday, the 12th.
I’ve seen a photo of a scene for his new layout…Fantastic…The layout will be excellent if the photo is any indication of the quality of the rest of the pike…My friend saw the new scene/diorama on a recent layout tour and snapped a shot.
Guy
Thanks River Eagle! I hope I dont have to work!! Hey, how you been doing? Is there still a club at Warrenton?
I recently emailed Gary inquiring about the Lee Jeans sign on the building facing Dearborn Station on his Santa Fe layout. When he responded to my email, he mentioned that he had sold most of his layout and was changing over to N&W steam circa 1953/1954.
Rich
Did Gray say how he got the Lee Jean Sing? I have done the layout in N scale would like to finish it up with that sign. Bill
In his email to me, Gary indicated that he used a color photo from a magazine. He took a 35mm slide of the page and then enlarged it to a 5x7 color print. He then made a color paper copy of the 5x7 color print and pasted the paper to the building front. Unfortunately, he could not remember in which magazine he found the photo. When he sold the Dearborn Station portion of his layout, he sold the Lee Jeans sign with it.
I searched high and low on the Internet for the magazine or a clear photo but could not find it. At the time, I was building my own simulation of the Dearborn Station scene, and I wanted to put the Lee Jeans sign on the building across from Dearborn Station.
The best I could do was to find old magazine pages with similar Lee Jeans advertisements. I took a series of these advertisements, along with photos of the actual Dearborn Station and the Lee Jeans sign in the background, to my sister-in-law who is a graphic artist. She developed a composite which I pasted to a background building. I was pleased with the results.
Rich
This will remind me to read those bio more careful