A Blast from the Past
Working from home, as I do, has its good points and its bad points. One of the bad points is that I tend to get very lazy about the desk in my office and seldom make any attempt to keep it tidy.
But this week it got all too much for me and I just had to clean it up. While I was doing so I found this:
Lord knows how it got there – and it certainly hasn’t been hiding on my desk since 1988 but there it was and for me it was a blast from the past.
The illustration on the front of the brochure came from James McInerney’s wonderful layout Lambing Flat.
Inside the brochure is a list of presentations that were to be made that day. Those presentations included Researching and Building Richmond (in N Scale) from Phil Badger. Phil Collins talked about modeling mail trains.
Ian Dunn waxed lyrical about the fact that it was always spring inside an air-conditioned train. Keiran Ryan talked about wheat silos and if I remember correctly he also displayed one of his amazing wheat silo models.
Ian Thorpe talked about researching and building goods vehicles and a totally unknown speaker made his one and only appearance as a speaker at Modelling the Railways of NSW conventions when I gave a talk on card order operation – subtitled How to Work No. 52 Pick-up.
These days I can’t remember how I came to select that number for a train but oddly enough only the other day I found the display cards I used in my presentation.
Those conventions were always packed with information and I learned a lot every time I attended.