Rocky Mountain Live Steamers

Ken Scheer provided the following in an email dated 4 November 2015:

In 1958, at age 12-- I had my very first incredible "Hands-On" Introduction to 3/4-Inch Scale x 3-1/2-Inch Gauge "Live-Steam Locomotives", by a wonderful 72 year-young Gentleman, a retired Union Pacific RR Locomotive Engineer in Denver, Mr. Arthur Wegner-- and he became a very dear friend. Over the next several years, Arthur also became my most gracious and generous "Great Mentor" in the realm of "Live-Steamers" and in the "Grittier" aspects of true Railroading. By 1960, I was actively building an LBSC "Tich" (in Art's Shop--), and also became the youngest Member of the Rocky Mountain Live Steamers Club, a casual regional group of only eight (or so--) RMLS Members. I also joined the BLS, with Harry L. Dixon, Secretary, which became the BLS Pacific Coast Division. By 1963, I also had joined the BLS East Coast Division, with Edgar J. Kruckeberg, Secretary (many years later, in 1987-- I also became a Member of the IBLS Mid-West Division, with Ralph Tucker, Secretary). Today, it is a little disconcerting to find myself as the sole-surviving, yet quite proud, living Member of the old Rocky Mountain Live Steamers--!