Randy:
Ivan had the drawings in a large wooden shipping crate, filed in some order that he understood, and he was able to access them from that storage container. As I said, he pulled a number of coaling station drawings and shipped them to me to scan, but I could not afford the cost of scanning the big 24x26-inch tracings in an era when big flatbed scanners were few and far between.
It crushes me to think how much has likely been lost with these drawings, but I cannot imagine that they have survived, as Ivan almost certainly has not.
Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: randy@prototrains.com
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:31:28 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] RE: Does anyone know Ivan G. Parks?
At 02:29 PM 12/10/2013, Hol wrote:
>and have not heard from him since -- and this was nearly 10
>years ago. I tried everything I could think of to see that
>the drawings were preserved, but I am afraid they are lost now.
Thank you for the (unfortunately sad) update, Hol. I wish I had been
more persistent/timely in corresponding with Ivan when he moved to
Puerto Rico, but in his last letter to me he indicated the drawings
were all packed away from that move and were not accessible. Maybe
he never unpacked them?
Randy
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