top of page 58 is in HO scale, not N scale. This in case N scalers start searching for doors that small.
BILL GILL via e-mail
Septembers railroad I would like to applaud Mr. Jim
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Baby Shays That was a great article on the
“Baby” Shays in the September, RMC. One Shay to add to the list that was given, if not already there, is a two-foot gauge engine that was at the Heritage Square theme park near Golden, Col- orado. I saw it while at a National Nar- row Gauge Convention back in the mid-1980’s. I don’t know where it may be now. The late Dale Darney of V&T Shops
had several kits to convert HO MDC Shays to these small locomotives. The boiler for the model of the Heritage Square Shay was smaller than the stock HO boiler. I believe that Keith Wiseman has the V&T Shops line now, although such conversions would de- pend on Athearn/MDC putting the HO Shay on the market.
GLENN JOESTEN Yreka, California
Correction It is good to see “Thinking Outside
the Blocks” in print. However, there is one small correction. The building on
Zinser for his article in the September RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK. From a personal viewpoint, I have had my own freelance railroad (Fiddle Hill & Northern) since the mid- 1960’s. It has ranged in era from the 1960’s to the 1950’s to the early 1920’s and 1940’s. It’s design purpose has changed from general freight to coal hauling to logging and the present ear- ly 1970’s operation located in the Up- per Peninsula and interchanging with actual railroads in the area. I live in Northeast Michigan and
have gone through several layouts of different sizes and different shapes, presently it’s a short line with a mid- size main yard and industrial area, a rural community, an iron ore dock and yard and a branch line to two Gypsum Mines. It’s all Alco powered and run- ning on a timetable schedule. The free- lancing has given me years of enjoy- ment, change and experience. I believe all forms of model railroading and are great and should be explored. BOB FASHBAUGH
Alabaster, Michigan
Ice cream The delivery of the September, 2011
issue of RMC could not have been more perfect. The issue arrived on Friday, August 12th, when we were traveling on Amtrak to Rhode Island and later drove through Southeastern Massa- chusetts en route to visit my family. After reading Preston Cook’s article, “Ice Cream: A can, a bottle and a buck- et,” I realized that we could visit the structures covered in the article. Armed with good road maps we em- barked upon a mission to hunt them down. As you can see from the photos, we managed to find the can and buck-
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