Last week, I heard that Ed McCamey passed away, and I confess that it rather took the wind out of my sails.
Ed was one of the first Proto:87 contacts I made, way back in 1994. He sat behind me at Jim Harper’s clinic on detailing track; when the discussion turned from 1:48 scale to 1:87, he distinguished himself with his knowledge and his outrageous moustache. By the end of the clinic, I had a handful of names of folks who were interested in pushing the frontier to Proto:87, but not Ed’s. I sought that moustache out, and we met in the bar where I convinced him to join me.
That was his first mistake. Over the ensuing two decades, Ed proved to be a leading light of the Proto:87 movement. It was he who designed, financed and distributed the gauge that I use to this day. When the NMRA…
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