It is a double hit for me. I met him and father John at the first 1972 convention in Kansas City. I understood he was working on a 4-wheel scale test car which never came to market. DJE
----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Borgmeyer To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:33 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Jack Sudimak - 10/23/2012 Jack was one of the real "greats" of S Scale. A tireless champion of S. If you showed the slightest interest in S, he was there to hook you in as he did with me and many others. As long as your trains were S and scale he would give you the shirt off of his back. He opened his basement every Thursday night for anyone to come run trains or just hang-out and talk S. A curator of our history, he took great pride in his collection of models from the 1930's up to the present. It was a wonder to watch him work a potential S newbie handing them a paper printed tank car side or a loco built from wood and then walking them through time up to the latest and greatest River Raisin brass. I'd say S and the Northern Ohio S Scalers lost one of the most positive lights in our universe. It is the end of an era for those of us in Northeast Ohio but I think we all carry a bit of the joy of S Scale Jack expressed on with us into the future. Chris Borgmeyer
