IBLS Journal 1957
Secretary's Report
The North American Live Steamer, Volume 1, Number 9
This time of year, and with about two feet of snow on the ground, makes it kind of difficult to think much about outdoors live steaming. Nevertheless it would seem to be the time of year when one is able to accomplish something in the shop. From the looks of my track here in Boxford, a rotary snow plow had better be put on the program.
Everybody please take notice that my address has now become RFC, Boxford, Mass. and mail should no longer be sent to me at RFD, Topsfield, Mass. If it is so sent, it means a lot of extra work for the Topsfield post office and a delay in any mail sent to me. This is just a much needed change in the RFD routing in this section.
The writeup in the last issue of The North American Live Steamer about the meeting of the Pioneer Valley Live Steamers at their track at Southwick, Mass. was good, but it hardly did justice to the meeting. It was one of the nicest and most friendly gatherings that has taken place in the east for a long time. The old time spirit of friendliness and congeniality was very much in evidence. It was certainly a pleasure to see so many of the old timers who have been absent from some of the meetings for so many years. The ladies of the Pioneer Valley group sure do deserve a lot of credit, too, as they put in a lot of work with the food that they had available. That means a lot of thought, hard work and just good downright patience. This hard work and organizing also applies equally to all the men folks whose part in an undertaking of this sort is so often overlooked or taken for granted by a lot of people.
A couple of days after Christmas this pat year, I had the opportunity of paying a short visit to the Transportation Museum of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at their Mount Clare Station in Baltimore. The exhibits of the old modern locomotives, cars, sections of rails, the model railroad, the scale model bridges, etc. are all most interesting. They are housed in some of their historical buildings and all in all it is a very much worth while place to visit.
- Carl Purinton
- RFD, Boxford, Mass
LALS Not Yet Open
From Walter M., 28 March 2013:
- In 1957 I was working at Lockheed in Burbank. During the lunch hour we often wandered to Griffith Park, and climb about the full scale relics. LALS was next door but not open.
GGLS Selects 7.5 Gauge
In September of 1957 it was announced that 7 1/2" gauge had taken hold as the standard gauge on the West Coast and that would be the gauge that the club would use at Redwood Park.