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Charlie et al I don't want to speak of "what I do not really know"...but it seems that the most anybody out here knows about what Jim had or what he intended to do with it is "NOTHIN"
Many will be surprised and it seems will also be disappointed...Remember this information is worth exactly what it cost and considering the source (me) that cost will probably be considerably discounted.
Pete
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From: 'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 11:37 am Subject: RE: [CBQ] Passing of Jim Seacrest I would be curious to know what happens to his extensive model collection. He had some custom Burlington locomotives (according to the credits in old MR “Trackside Photos” and had Wanted to Buy ads in the back of the magazines for years. I think he had some of the early Corbin and others O Scale scratchbuilt locomotives.
I would not be surprised to find out that he acquired some of the Burlington Junior (O Scale third rail railroad from the 40’s – 60’s in the basement of a funeral home in Berwyn/Cicero IL) equipment which included a very nice scratchbuilt Aeolus #4000, Pomona Valley EA/EB and E5A/B units, as well as some other Q stuff scratchbuilt from soup cans. I can still conjure up the smell of the mixmaster-sized motors and the sparking of the third rail as the trains roared around the railroad!!
Reportedly he had a warehouse full of trains and railroadiana and I hope the CB&Q stuff doesn’t get scattered to the winds!!!
Charlie Vlk
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