Regarding Dave Bailey. Dave was a member of our Lehigh Valley S Gauger club for at least 7-10 years. Dave was a perfectionist to the 10th degree, his work always showed that. I most likely have images of his Yard, as I had seen it being built from the beginning. But they are in my slide files and I don't have the time to look it up. Dave had planned a really nice scale layout that incorporated the Hump Yard into it. Dave's YARD is featured in the October 1992 Modeling Guide.
Bert Mahr and Dave Bailey built a GE B39-7 5000 Series Diesel locomotive from urethane shells, then they stretched an American Models mechanism to run it. Dave designed, casted the side frames. Bert said that locomotive is still running well to this day in DCC. Dave Bailey entered his locomotive in a 1990's Altoona NASG convention and won an award with it. Bert said he would never do that again, the stress was overbearing. This is not knock, but telling you Dave Bailey wanted things right. Dave had the largest collection of Brass that I had ever seen in a home, stored in two massive metal cabinets.. Why is Dave no longer in S scale? At that time Dave felt we weren't offering modern and exacting enough equipment in our models. I believe he and Keith Thompson founded Proto 64: ? http://www.trainweb.org/proto64/introduction.htm Possibly, he also started another modern equipment group? Anyway, Dave started unloading [selling] all of his S scale equipment at our 2001 Steamtown convention and is no longer model railroading. I believe that Dave at that time was one of our premiere S scale modelers and it would be neat to have him rejoin us, especially with what we have to offer everyone now-a-days. Hope this helps, Bill Fraley [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
