Thxs John for posting that fitting Eulogy for one of our hobbies greats and sorry to hear of his passing. My Condolences to the Armstrong Family
G'day Randall. Good question , but don't quite know the answer . X file ? I didn't catch your post on About. Call from the cosmos is good. I didn't notice the age of the thread so all I can say is that I must have been looking at the " inspection pit " and it jumped out at me. I didn't notice until you bought it up how old the thread is and didn't know John had passed away. I was working in the outback in '04 and out of contact at that time with model railway news.
I just picked up Great Model Railroads 2009 and there is a great article about John's layout.I too thoroughly enjoyed his writing,his sense of humor and his insight into planning for operations.If you are planning a layout,read everything of John's you can get your hands on,it will be worth the effort.
