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From: "Richard Patterson" <rpatter@t...>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 07:43:44 -0700
Tony,
You already found the resident expert. John Olson knows as much about 
railroading in southern Montana as anyone I've found. Heck, he even knows quite 
a bit about Wyoming railroading :-)
Happy New Year
Rick Patterson

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From: Tony Birks <tony.birks2005@b...>
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Date: Saturday, December 30, 2000 5:07 AM
Subject: [BRHSlist] billings Montana


Hi from the UK and a Happy New Year

My name is Tony Birks and I am new to this list. I started modelling 
US Railroads scene back in 1996 after 20 years of modelling the UK 
scene. I was drawn towards the US scene by the quality of the Locos 
and rolling stock on offer. In the UK at that time if you wanted fly 
wheel drive and all wheel pickup you had to scratch build.

After six months of buying anything that caught my eye I settled on 
the BN, but as I read more the BN forerunner's started creeping in. 
By the spring of 1998 myself and a friend Eric Cains had built a 
20x14ft exhibition layout based in Montana called Canyon Ferry east 
of Helena. In the June of that year minus families we both set off 
for Montana armed with cameras,video cameras, maps and a copy of 
Model Railroader. we must have visited ever Model shop on our route 
from Seattle to Billings and Back. We ended up have to ship some of 
our purchases back to the UK by UPS as we would have exceeded our 
luggage allowance. We visited Canyon Ferry and found that we had got 
everything wrong so a rebuild on our return was required. During our 
stay in Billings we visited Jims Junction and got to know the owner 
John Olson. This chance meeting has lead to a much more accurate 
model railroad exhibition layout to which we are greatful for his 
support.

In 1998 we stayed in the Best Western in downtown Billings and spent 
the evenings around the railroad. June this year we visited 
Billings again to visit John and his family. It was druing this visit 
that the birth of a new exhibition layout was born. Although 
construction is not expected to start until the summer of 2001 it is 
never to early to collect information, this is where I hope the 
members of this list can help me.

I would be greatful if you can point me in the direction of where I 
can obtain information on track layout,and buildings assocatiated 
with railroads passing through Billings from 1965 to 1975.

Thanking you inadvance

Tony


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