Having had more then a couple

Having had more then a couple encounters with John over the years I am sure he would be happy with the results of your work.  
-Doug M

John Glabb and his original

John Glabb and his original Peach Creek Shops in Laural MD was one of the prime reasons I got back into the train hobby. I had returned to the USA from working over in Asia, and a good friend had a hi-end tire business that he was expanding into wholesale to a variety of dealers thruout DC/Balt region. One of his prime drivers fell ill and he needed someone to fill in. I did it for several months, and I would often find my way by John's shop for a 'quicky visit' on numerous days.

Naturally I was in childhood heaven walking into that little shop with all its brass engines, etc. I started buying up the used plastic stuff that he acquired after buying brass estates. And of course there were always questions i had of his 2 great employees that helped with sales and repairs.

I ended up becoming a collector of all sorts of train items that I thought I might use eventually upon older age retirement. And I continued to visit John's shop for a number of years, including his move to another shop, and even his closing of that shop.

He was an extortionary resource on brass models, and he often attended that show in Balt with another major collector of brass, Howard Zane . I had some find mentors.

There was never a short visit

to Peachcreek Shops or a short conversation with John.  And it was never wasted time either.

steel

John was also one of the organizers of the group that is now the Steel Mill Modelers SIG.

Yes I remember he was quite

Yes I remember he was quite excited when Walthers decided to do that model (I was as well).
 
He and a small group of modelers built a diorama of a steel mill that I believe he took on tour, discussed on the internet, and he took it to the Timonium train show.

I believe he was also instrumental in getting some manufactures to built specialized steel mill cars.

BTW, I think he also purchased a house down at Cass?

I remember the steel mill

I remember the steel mill model at Timonium well. I spoke with him multiple times over the years, he was always a friendly presence at the show. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.

Did you happen to see this

Did you happen to see this recent posting?...

Cass RR and my new Thai wife

Of course John had made me aware of Cass Scenic Railroad,...and I already had a thing for those logging locomotives.

So it was on the very first USA visit of my Thai wife, that I decided to take her on a trip to the west of DC to see the autumn change of leaves ,...something that does not occur in Thailand. And I thought why not get 2 events in the same trip,...a visit to West Virginia's Cass logging railroad.

What a beautiful day we chose,...rode that railroad all the way to the top of the mountain, stopping along the way at a logging camp, then a small picnic at the top with fantastic views and autumn colors.

Pretty neat to see this subject posting come up again. I had lost track of those pics of our  visit to CASS ...exciting for both of us.

As mentioned John got very involved with that newly released Walther's steel mill kits. I was excited as well, ...since I had never seen such a big industry modeled in a plastic kit. I have to have one for my eventual retirement layout. I bought all the initial kits and put them aside for the future (there was no way I could put them on my then Central Midland layout).

I keep those kits for a number of years, until I came to the conclusion I would never have a layout big enough to incorporate such a complex.  So I sold them off.

Then I retired to FL and decided to build my retirement layout in its own designated  hand-house shed I pulled into my carport.
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/help-please-design-a-dbldeck-layout-in-its-own-handhouse-shed-12207028?pid=1331207333

As I was attempting to do my new layout plan I ran across an already built steel mill plant for sale on ebay. It was a pretty reasonable price once I figured out how I was going to get it delivered (BIG package), so I decided to buy it just in case I might make use of it.

Now that I had that kit I started to think of how i might use it in my relatively small space. I first thought maybe just the blast furnace, BUT the I slowly determined I would include more. I played musical chairs with possible locations where I might include it, and what portions I might be able to include,..

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/steel-mill-scene-in-a-corner-now-coke-plant-power-plant-12209837?&trail=25

I've even found a place for the coke plant, then more recently a way to make it appear even larger,..with mirrors
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/steel-mill-scene-in-a-corner-now-coke-plant-power-plant-12209837?pid=1332904940

I took some photos of John's Peach Creek Shops on the last day, which was June 1, 2011. (was it really that long ago?) I made about a dozen shots, put them on a CD and gave it to John later. Here are a few of the most interesting...John Glaab with a customer:

The shop's neat steel mill layout, mentioned on another thread: (check out the VERY studly man lifting that red hot plate in lower center)

Here we have the store front; this is the final store on All Saints Rd, a bit west of the original Main St. store location:

John's wife Cristine was in the back of  the store, but I didn't take her picture; I was aware she was pretty sick, and so I didn't bother her. John closed the store    because a new lease was coming due for five more years. John didn't want to commit for that long, plus his wife was fighting illness...so John   "pulled the  pin".