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Couldn't help but respond when I saw John Allen's name. My brother --regular Army--attended Army Language School in John Allen's town (San Diego) many years ago. My family has been in model RR since the 1930's and my brother naturally called John up to see if he could visit. He did so and spent numerous evenings with John. John ultimately gave him a G & D HO car which he still has. (I feel like the man who wanted "...to shake the hand of the man who shook the hand of the great John L.!" I feel like prostrating myself when I hear my brother speak of those evenings with John, experiencing vicariously moments in The Great Man's Presence and viewing that Legendary Layout.) John Allen did imaginatively for minute scenery and true scale modeling in HO what John Ellison before him (and whom we knew in New Orleans in the 40's) did for O scale scenery and operations. Until John Allen came along, HO was mostly an "interesting" little scale but with no pretensions! John Allen elevated it to an art form! We still have all the Model Railroader magazines from those years and his work was and is phenomenal. What a shame the G & D burned down. It does my heart good, guys, to hear you speak of him in properly reverent tones. Good luck in resurrecting the G & D in large scale! John is somewhere and smiling on you!
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