Railroad Supply History

[Mikadoguy]

Last few photos

[Harold_V]

Who are the two people shown above?
H

[Marty_Knox]

Who are the two people shown above?
H

I don't know who the lady is, but the bottom photo is Chet Petersen.

[Mikadoguy]

Who are the two people shown above?
H

Harold, I don't know the name off the top of my head, but I do believe that she was the secretary for Railroad Supply. I wanna say these were taken in the early 80's. These pictures should be in the 9 or 10 edition of the Railroad Supply Catalog.


Steve

[Dick_Morris]

The photo of Chet is in the sixth edition catalog. Mid-to late 70s?

[Harold_V]

Thanks. I have heard Chet's name mentioned time and again, and, if I recall correctly, he owned a UP Northern, which I saw in '90 at the IBLS meet in LA. Nice to put a face on the name.

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[Cary Stewart]

I have forgotten that ladies name but my late wife stood in for her several summers when she was not teaching nursing students. Those photos of the 4-4-0s raised some hackles at Little Engines. Chet had them on the molding surrounding the big window that looked in on the Engineering room. He had captioned them His and Hers. In the above reproductions I see a significant difference in the photo scales. If I recall the actual photos were pretty accurate in scale for comparison. The Little Engines 4-4-0 was a expansion of a model of the C.P Huntington 4-2-4T which is a very small engine. something like 10 tons (?). The engine is on display at the California State RR Museum in Sacramento, CA. RRSC's CP173 is quite a bit larger than the LE one.
Cary

[KarlKobel]

Sorry to join this party late.

After I bought my Mikado castings from Railroad Warehouse, I met Nick Edwards and he related the story behind that locomotive to me.
I'll leave to others to tell the story as I'll probably forget important facts.

On another note, the 6 wheel passenger trucks, pictured in Nelson's book, So You Want to Build a Steam Locomotive, were designed by Bud Buker. He had the patterns made, cast the trucks he needed, and lent the patterns to Chet.

Karl

[Mikadoguy]

Does anyone know where the Bolus Blomberg engine trucks and the Hi-Level 2 and 3 axle truck pattern boards are? We have been looking for leads to where they are.

[Yellow_13]

Thanks for the fascinating read, it's great to be able to live the story of something that happened in a place and time which are so far away! I'll try and see if I can create such a story about the former aviation factory in the city I live in, it closed in the 90s but most of its former engineers, workers etc are still around and must have pictures.