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artwork. These guys bring a lot of energy and excitement to the
every meet.
A new feature this year was provided by Clark Propst of Mason
City, Iowa. Clark brought an eight-foot table-top layout specifi-
cally designed to be displayed and operated at RPM meets.
Clark built the lightweight layout in just eight months and
designed it to fit on just one eight-foot folding table with an
eight-foot “tail track” for staging and switching.
It’s not free-lanced either – the layout depicts the actual Allied
Mills/Wayne’s Feed mill on the Milwaukee Road in Mason City,
circa 1958. Clark designed short, 30-minute op sessions and about
a dozen attendees took the challenge on Friday and Saturday.
There were 85 tables of hand-picked vendors who attended
the meet, including Tangent Scale Models, Cannon, Moloco,
8. Clark Propst’s Allied Mills layout in action. The lightweight
layout is designed to be placed on a standard 8 x 2-1/2-foot
table for easy viewing and operating. It was the hit of the meet.
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9. Pierre Oliver, left, of Yarmouth Scale Models, attended from
Canada, selling steam-era freight car kits and parts.
10. Gary Roe, right, and Allen Reuter, left, of the Wabash Historical
Society. The Wabash HS was one of 12 historical societies
present, and provided books, magazines, drawings, track charts,
records, and other information of benefit to the prototype modeler.
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