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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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