St. Louis RPM meet - 5
Plano, Yarmouth Model Works, Rails Unlimited, Funaro
& Camerlengo, Railshop Ltd., ICG Custom Decals, Badger
Airbrush, Protocraft, Stan Rydarowicz Models, Moon Dog
Railcars, Fox Valley Models, Lake Junction Models, Norris
Hobbies, Q Connection, Spring Creek Model Trains, ProtoLoads,
Mask Island Decals, OST Publications, Weathering Solutions,
Motrak Models, Iowa Scaled Engineering, and others.
Photo dealers – a specialty at RPM meets providing views of
specific engines, rolling stock and scenes – included Big Four
Graphics, Bob’s Photos, Mike Gruber Photos, and Ed Stoll
Photographs. Joe Collias was also on hand selling his original
photographs taken in St. Louis and around the Midwest from
the 1940s and 50s.
11. David Ward brought his new company, ProtoLoads, to
St. Louis. David constructs and sells prototypical loads for
freight cars and did a booming business at the meet. He
builds open loads in numerous scales, and had HO, S and O
scale examples available.
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12. Ben Bartlett attended from Brevard, NC, and brought a
large display of Erie Lackawanna buildings and rolling stock
for display.
13. An overview of the fully-filled model display tables. At last
count on Friday, over 1,300 models were on display, all brought
by attendees. There are no modeling contests at St. Louis RPM;
instead, modelers are encouraged to bring their best work for
display and discussion. Many in-progress models were also on
display so other modelers can see how they are being built.
MRH-Sep 2014
