--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Gerald Edgar" <gvlc6@...> wrote:
>
> Wow! Our dreams came through of a Lines West meet AND a joint one with one
> of our natural partners; NP or GN. The NP folks were tremendous, very
> friendly & constantly appreciative of the CB&Q fans who attended.
> It was a 'win-win' as we exchanged info, shared clinics, railfanned, etc, A
> big thank you to Gene Tacey for making this possible AND Kyle Brehm (NPHS
> Meet Host), NPHS officers & mbrs and the Crowne Plaza hotel. The Billings
> newspaper gave great P.R. to the meet and NPHS was smart to encourage the
> public to attend the Swap meet (free!) which meant more buyers AND more NP/Q
> items being offered by folks whose family had worked for either road.
> A special thanks to Dick Chappel, BRHS mbr in nearbvy Hardin who gave us a
> special tour of TWO Q depots and his TWO layouts (local historical society
> moved the 2 story Lodge Grass depot to their historic village, also a 50'
> wood truss road coach - the latter not yet restored but the depot was
> pristine including original furnishings from the Agent and his family who had
> loved upstairs) The brick Hardin depot was also restored & a great place to
> visit trackside. Then Dick gave us a tour of his basement G scale layout
> (had no idea so many G models are available in Q paint) AND his 7" outdoors
> layout (battery powered by 2 GN boxcabs but a nice Q flat car in the consist)
>
> Why we had not worked to have a meet with NP or GN yrs ago is ancient history
> but this week sure showed how great it can be. Again hats off to NPHS mbrs,
> the panel of Veteran employees (inc. 2 who had worked for Q), etc. The
> mountains, all the remaining Q equipment in tne area (steam locos, waycars,
> freight cars, depots, truss bridges, etc) made this a once in a lifetime
> event. I say lifetime as I was a grad student @ U. of Iowa when we started
> this in 1976 and a look around the clinic rooms showed nary a Q or NP head
> that was not grey or silver (or bald). Fallen flag RR groups are threatened
> by Father Time so take the time now to get out to meets (also those veteran
> employees obviously were old given BN took over CB&Q 43 yrs ago. One had
> been a 16 yr old call boy but he was the exception to the rest who were
> retired in some cases for 20 years.
>
> And for you collectors/modelers there were really good deals as the NP folks
> sold off their Q RRiana and models and vice-a-versa. A lot of "win-win"
> deals! We also found a lot of Q info in some the NPHS publications as did
> the NP fans at our Company Store. Good to see old friends who have done so
> much for Q fans and who were able to make it to a BRHS meet since it was
> Lines West: Bill Glick, Ken Martin et al. Thanks one and all! Gerald
>
> (Now look in a mirror and explain to yourself again why you a) are NOT a BRHS
> mbr or b) why you missed Billings!) :-)
>
Gerald -
Just wanted to point out the NP group is not the NPHS, but the NPRHA, Northern
Pacific Railway Historical Association.
The person I had planned to go to Billings with cancelled out a couple of
months ago, and therefore, made the trip from OK cost prohibitive. I had
planned to bring some "O" scale models to the meet such as class S-4 steam
engines from both the "Q" and NP, plus a few others.
Bob Campbell
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