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John Allen's birthday Journals/Blogs
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New member 27 posts wardhobby New member 27 posts
wardhobby

Just read Joe Fugate's article on the Gorre & Dephetid layout of John Allen.  I was very lucky to be stationed at the Presidio of Monterey in 1971 as a very young 19 year old in the Air Force.  I saw an article by him and found him in the phone book, called up and he invited me over.  I was amazed and overwhelmed by his layout.  Just wish that I knew more to ask him and learn.  I still look for his photos to recall that visit.

 

 

Ward
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Ronmsal78 Active Member 30 posts
Ronmsal78

Digitized?

You wouldn't happen to have those in digital format would you?

 
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wardhobby New member 27 posts
wardhobby

Sorry Ronmsal, I didn't

Sorry Ronmsal,

I didn't take any pictures.  Didn't even own a camera back then.  I was a lowly E-2 in the Air Force then.  I look for pictures in magazines to recollect the visit.

 

Ward

Ward
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Chris Palermo patentwriter Frequent poster 986 posts
Chris Palermo patentwriter

Today's 106 years after his birth

A few of us in northern CA are getting together for a pancake breakfast to remember the man and his impact on our pursuit of the hobby.
At Large North America Director, 2024-2027 - National Model Railroad Association, Inc.
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Chris Palermo patentwriter Frequent poster 986 posts
Chris Palermo patentwriter

Original passes

An attendee at the breakfast, who operated on the Gorre & Daphetid, showed original passes that John printed up and signed.

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At Large North America Director, 2024-2027 - National Model Railroad Association, Inc.
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Michael Tondee MRH Author 5,547 posts
Michael Tondee

Give anything to have one of

Give anything to have one of those! This hobby would not even be a hobby for me without John Allen and his immeasurable influence on it.

Michael, A.R.S. W4HIJ

 Model Rail, electronics experimenter and "mad scientist" for over 50 years.

Member of  "The Amigos" and staunch disciple of the "Wizard of Monterey"

My Pike: The Blackwater Island Logging&Mining Co.
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Marc Prolific poster 1,369 posts
Marc

Big influence

 

Friend of me has translate the original book of Kalmbach in french; this book was a good seller in Europe.

His influence was well over the atlantic and my own Maclau River has numerous reference of the GD line like the Port Allen town with a port and a N scale version of the car ferry Anabel.

The design of my layout include some feature of the GD line including a like sim's loop.

Some cars are labeled GD lines too.

His influence is recognized by the greatest modelers lik Georges Sellios, Howard Zane by example.

 

For so much modelers I would like to say, thank you John to show the way a model train could be.

On the run whith my Maclau River RR in Nscale
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jimfitch Prolific poster 5,302 posts
jimfitch

John who? *runs and hides*

John who?

*runs and hides*

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Jim Fitch
northern VA
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