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Posted - June 12 2018 : 5:06:45 PM
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by Gordon Pugh, ca. 1997, at the El Paso Model Train Club
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Posted - June 12 2018 : 5:09:24 PM
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Neat, Chops!! Are those "shanties" former MOW cars, or just box cars that had windows implemented?
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16
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Posted - June 12 2018 : 9:05:46 PM
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quote:Neat, Chops!! Are those "shanties" former MOW cars, or just box cars that had windows implemented?
Originally posted by RP model railroads - June 12 2018 : 5:09:24 PM
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kits actually I think Model Power, Life-Like & others made them as yard offices
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Posted - June 12 2018 : 11:54:48 PM
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Neat photo Jeff.
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 12:47:30 AM
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Thanks, Barry. I believe Gordon was installing these pieces just about the time I met and joined the Club. I rather like the way he was able to bring out the glass and ceramic jars and jugs on the foremost shanty. He was always very meticulous in everything he did.
I had heard he passed away, and then about six months later ran into him at the public library. Quite to my surprise, the "reports of his death were greatly exaggerated." I elected not to pass this newsworthy item over to him, just the same; my shock being enough to handle.
He had taken up dry dirt gold mining, north of El Paso, in a chancy little town that time, and pretty much the rest of the world, forgot, called Oro Grande. Not much Oro, and even less grande.
Gordon, from his days in the field, eating and breathing dirt from the dry mining process, looked rather ghostly, as he was covered from hat to boot in a fine layer of New Mexican dust, but otherwise looked quite healthy.
This be a true story.
Edited by - Chops124 on June 13 2018 12:48:32 AM
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 10:40:32 AM
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Could be Plasticville or Revell as well OR reproduces Revell
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 3:54:19 PM
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Some fragmentary recollection of a brief conversation with Gordo leads me to think he said, "Revell." That was before he died and reappeared in the library.
Edited by - Chops124 on June 13 2018 3:56:20 PM
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