and he notes - Fred. (nee Frederick Hawkins Richardson, b. 1917 at Barrington, RI.) He always used Fred and signed the book that way. He and Nelson were high school chums and met when the Royal Scot was on display in Providence in 1933. The ran a newspaper and operated an extensive model railroad in Nelson's brother Luther's basement. They toured the country after high school and got the idea for the book, which was published in 1938 [Tuttle Publishing, Rutland Vt, 206p].
Incidentally, Fred Richardson told me that they got the idea for Steamtown back in the 30s when the Maine 2 footers were going under. They tried to get Henry Ford to buy the Sandy River line but got nowhere. They did get Ellis D. Atwood (founder of Edaville) interested though and at least some of the equipment was preserved, albeit after the War when gas for transporting the equipment became available. Atwood had to post guards on the Bridgeton & Harrison line to keep poachers from sneaking in and scrapping the locos after one of them narrowly escaped the torch. It's interesting that Blount's first tourist loco, the Rahway Valley 2-8-0 (no. 15, nee Onieda & Western N0. 20) had as many name changes as the Flying Yankee. It was lettered for the Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern when it operated out of Keene. When Blount moved everything to Walpole, NH the name was shortened to Monadnock Northern and when he moved to Riverside, Vt. it was lettered for the Green Mountain RR. Then in it's final days of operation, it bore the lettering Steamtown Railway. When it was set out for display it was relettered again as Rahway Valley. I rode in it at Walpole and never gave a thought to the dangers in riding a steam locomotive. 10 or so years later it blew a flue and badly scalded Andy Barbera, an engineer I had ridden with a few times on the CP Pacific No. 1278 then in regular service. The 15 had flue time extensions and saw only occasional use at reduced pressure, but on that day it was part of a triple header and must have had a full head of steam. It's at Scranton now and I don't know if it's ever used. Supposedly it has new flues. Raleigh At 08:21 PM 3/25/2005, C&P Porter wrote: >Thanks again to Jim & Rollie. I did tour the website Jim suggested. Very >Well done. To Rollie, What was Mr. Richardson's first name? >Chuck Porter >----- Original Message ----- >From: "raisinone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 5:30 PM >Subject: [S-Scale Modeling] Re: Zephyrs, Flying Yankee, etc.... > > > > > >The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to >reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail >software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you >on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. > >Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, >view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
