Whatever happened to. ..

[Anonymous]

Hey, whatever happened to Paul Wescott's boy who helped build one of the plans featured in MR back several years ago. Is he still in modeling?
Andy, need some help here!

[Anonymous]

I meant to say Lynn Westcott's boy, Paul?. Lynn used to be editor of MR.

[dknelson]

I seem to recall that Linn's son's name was Russell and that he helped build the Sierra Pintada layout in the mid 1960s -- a very interesting western themed point to point layout designed by Bill Rau of the MR staff at the time. I do not know if he was a real model railroader or if dad just got him a summer job at Kalmbach!
Another "whatever happened to?" would be about a guy named Don Reschenberg (spelling?) who was on the MR staff for some years from late 1950s to early 1960s -- that guy seemed to be a real craftsman.
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

Hi Dave:

We are all getting older. It dawned on me that someone who worked on the MR staff 45 + years ago is getting up there in the years. Maybe we don't want to know what ever happened to them.

[dknelson]

Yup Westcott's boy is probably now a grandpa.

Getting older indeed! The other night a similarly old modeler and I found that we could both recite from memory entire articles from an old give-away pamphlet that Kalmbach used to offer entitled Your Introduction to Scale Model Railroading. We had eached devoured it as kids and had total recall. So I dug mine out. Last revised 1957! Ouuch my knees!
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

Dave, actually I mentioned Don Reschenberg in a thread a couple of months ago,[ about Homasote laminated on edge, for roadbed ] and was advised by MR staff that he's fine, just no longer involved in Model Railroading....Don was pleased to still be remembered by us old time readers.
regards / Mike

[dknelson]

IT seems hard to believe that a guy who was such a terrific modeler, very very skilled, could lose interest in the hobby. Glad to hear he is OK though.
It might seem strange to be a nationally known model railraoder and then more or less walk away from it. On the other hand I have not played golf in probably 8 years and if you told me that would happen 20 years ago I would have told you you were insane -- that that, like model railroading and railfanning, were going to be my lifetime hobbies. And I know a guy who was a musician in one of America's finest symphony orchestras -- a genuine artist. The day he retired was the last time he played his instrument even for a minute. he could not wait to sell it. Go figure!
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

I can believe it! I was in retail photography from 1959 to 1990 when I sold my store. I hardly ever take pictures now even though I have several thousand dollars worth of equipment. The darkroom equipment has not even been set up for ten years and it includes a color enlarger that was only used twice. I think that when you make it a profession that you burn out after a while.

The same almost happened with my model railroading(My store was also a hobby shop). The thing that kept it from happening was a new approach to it with modular and now DCC. It's almost like a new hobby in the last ten years.

Doug