More Wanderings of an 'Aussie Engine Nut'
January/February 2000
Reg Ingold
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Ted Young at Sycamore Show in Wisconsin.
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37 Seaham Street Holmesville, 2286 NSW, Australia
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Here is another episode in the wanderings of an Aussie engine
nut. The last episode appeared in the February '98 issue of
GEM.
When I knew that my 'new knee joints' were going to be
installed, I thought that I would be laid up for quite a while, so
I bought a computer to help me fill in time. In a very short time I
found the 'Stationary List' and found a whole new set of
friends in all parts of the world.
Cutting out the painful bits (pun), I got things working again
and learned that the 'List' was having a presentation
dinner at the Portland Show; lots of the new friends would be
there. This was a chance I could not pass up, so after selling off
some of my models to pay for the trip, I flew over the pond again
on August 12 to stay firstly with old friends Brad Smith at
Franklin near Milwaukee and Richard Daoust of Waukesha. Before jet
lag had even got its hooks into me, Brad dropped me off to a friend
of his, Tom Artzburger, who has his own model railway in his
garden. I was made most welcome there and met the members of the
local railway club. This set the pace for the next few days and, in
just over a week I had three shows under my belt: Sycamore,
Chilton, and Baraboo. At each one of these, I met up with people
that I had heard of or 'talked' to on the Net. The standard
of exhibits seems to me to be always on the rise, as I saw and
photographed a lot of superb restorations. There were too many to
single out any for special mention.
On Monday, 16th, Richard took me over to Rockford to see the
clock museum. Sadly, it is now closed, so we called in on Ken
Branson and his two sons who are 'Branson Enterprises.'
(They were the folk who gave me the ride to Rockford on the last
trip.) It was a happy reunion and we all had a good laugh about our
previous meetings.
A couple of days later, we called in on Trinity Tools in
Milwaukee, where I previously got some tooling for my workshop. The
owner recognized me at once, even though we had only met once
before. I came away with a load more stuff that I could not live
without!
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