Kenneth Shattock

Kenneth V. Shattock served as the Secretary of the North American Region of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers until his death, 6 May 2017.

Shattock was appointed Secretary of the Western Region of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers (IBLS) by outgoing secretary Harry Dixon in 1973.

GGLS


Ken Shattock “officially” joined the Golden Gate Live Steamers organization in February 1961. During that same year, he was a member of the GGLS Safety Committee along with member Tom Stambaugh.

However Ken lived with his grandfather (club founder Vic Shattock) from 1948 thru 1961. As a young boy growing up in his native Oakland, California, he attended those Friday night GGLS meetings in Vic’s basement and was exposed to the early day construction activities in Redwood Regional Park for many years. It is his personal memories as well as stories from Vic that have helped him contribute the more detailed facts in the overall founding of the Golden Gate Live Steamers organization. For this, the Club is indebted for this additional information. See Victor Shattock and Golden Gate Live Steamers.

Since March-2013, Ken has been involved in a long-term project of writing a "West Coast Live Steam Book".. It will detail the life story of Victor Shattock including his career on the Southern Pacific Railroad and how he was instrumental in starting the Live Steam hobby as we know it today in the United States. It will also include histories of other Clubs besides GGLS and will include biographies of other Live Steamers that Vic was affiliated with in one way or the other! Watch for it !!

Ken was active on several train-related discussion boards, including Chaski.org and TrainOrders.com, where he was known as "Key Route Ken" for his enthusiasm for the Key Route interurban system in San Francisco.