NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 186, Issue 48

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I'm sorry to learn of Tom Sink's demise.  Soon after I settled in 
Roanoke I became acquainted with a group who had a great time playing 
with his model train layout in his attic.  What made this fun 
distinctive is that the trackage on his layout had multiple tracks with 
some complex groups of switches and he had two locomotives that he could 
operate simultaneously.  Two of us would each man an assigned group of 
switches, and both locomotives would be set in motion.  It was the 
responsibility of each of us to try to operate our assigned switches to 
shunt a locomotive coming into our "interlocking" such that the two 
locomotives would not collide in our interlocking but would collide in 
the other "operator's" interlocking.  There were penalties for using our 
hands to hold one or both locomotives to prevent a collision in our 
respective interlockings.  It is surprising how rugged the model 
locomotives were considering how many times all precautions failed and a 
collision occurred.  Some 60 or so years dims my always feeble memory, 
but I think that the other participants might have included Ed King and 
Jim Blackstock.  How about it you guys?

Gordon Hamilton

On 5/7/2020 3:46 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Tom Sink died a few years ago from cancer (he was a smoker for many years).
> His second wife died not long after Tom.  Very nice guy; always willing to
> help me with model projects and railfan questions.  I've asked a few folks
> what happened to his vast negative and slide collection, some of which was
> being scanned and posted on RR pictures archives web site.  Current
> whereabouts are unknown (at least, by me).
>
> Jim King
> http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/
>
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