THANK you EVERYONE for helping those of us that couldn’t be there, feel like we were part of the group. You all did it well…
AGAIN…THANK YOU, each and every one of you.
Fred Mills
Arrived back in CT just after 6PM. About 6 hours on the road including another missed exit, lunch and fuel stops plus a lengthy backup on 287 a few miles before the Tappan Zee bridge. Unloaded, parked and relaxing by 7:30.
It was really great seeing everyone again. I just wish it had been under better circumstances. The amount of activity was incredible. If you wanted something your had to grab it then go find Ric or Hollywood to pay. If you set it down to look for more, it would be gone! In my case I did get it back and a good laugh was had.
I planned on taking an engine and the rules were if you bought rolling stock you needed to take a building, I got two. I also left with a Jackson & Burke passenger set and Aristo/Delton car.
I really want to thank Ric Golding and Dave Marconi for taking on this monumental task and doing a wonderful job managing it.
Great pictures everyone. I took none.
Bruce made a wonderful photo memory book for Bev and we all signed it. There was also a place to add friends who could not be present where I added Ralph Berg and Al Pomeroy since they both asked me to let everyone know they wanted to come, but couldn’t make it.
Reflecting on Saturday, it was a good day, but difficult. I alternated feeling great that we were helping Bev get some of Ken’s stuff dealt with, and feeling like we were a bunch of ghouls descending on his RR for goodies. I left with more stuff than I was planning to (some rolling stock, a C19, two rail trucks, and some buildings.) Seeing the RR empty by the time we were leaving really left me sad. Gonna miss his “Robert! How are ya?”
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What you guys did was a very good thing. Wish I could have helped, but I can’t travel so well at present. I can’t drive yet, and I still have to use a catheter on myself. Oh boy, getting old ain’t for sissies.
Best wishes, David Meashey
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Nice! I wondered where they went to! I had JUST seen them on the shelf and there they were - GONE! 
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I really don’t need any more passenger stock in that scale but they called my name! They go with the “van” that made the great circle route to get here.
I also took the other C-19. I got the nicer carrier, but BD got the gem of the two C-19s 
All day Sunday, I sorted the items I acquired at KOPS. It was great fun, yet somber at times.
I bought a couple groups of unused Plastruct and Precision sheet, and three like-new box cars. Awesome!
There were two special cars I bought. One is a beautiful snow plow that Ken scratch-built, with R/C controlled spreader wings. Not sure how it works yet; but Bev and Ric gave me Ken’s plans, and there’s a folder for the plow to investigate.
The other special car was a track sweeper, with a rotating brush and scratchbuilt detailed superstructure. Gorgeous piece which I’m looking forward to putting to work.
In both cases, I’m thrilled. At the same time, I’m seeing how much research and care Ken put into his work. This applies to the many buildings I received. Yes, I tended toward the practically indestructible Pola’s. But several are scratchbuilt.
Which leads me to the last category of items which I’ll just call “stuff.” Many small boxes of scrap cedar and plastic, decals, plastic details, castaway couplers and wheels, cut-off model bits, defunct bridge parts, intended but not installed trestle bents, electrical detritus, you name it.
This took the longest to sort out, and it was all thick with dust that didn’t want to let go. But in the handling of each little piece, I was touching a project that this man worked on. I saw the care in the pencil marks, sketches, joints, broken joints, little one-time jigs, silicone molds long ago mushed out of shape, a what-if product purchase not utilized, half a scratch-built track cleaning car and a stack of all its used sandpaper, a very confusing gauge truck, half a railtruck project, and a big stack of plans for buildings and cars.
So it was a somber experience sorting through it all, while learning things about the man I’d not experienced before. It was sad having to cull it, and discard items I can neither use nor indefinitely store. But it was an honor to encounter Ken’s life a bit more in this fashion, and keep some of it around me. And you bet, I’ll make sure to build with his stuff.
Cheers Ken, thanks buddy,
Cliff
Incredibly!!!
This is why I finished and posted it Sunday morning. “LSC rules” always has and always will!
Apparently no one can confirm this Cliff.
CAN I GET AMEN !
I suspect that NOBODY ever knows what Rooster is ever doing nor do they want to even guess
Did anyone end up with the Phoenix programming jack that was in the tool box with all the chargers? I’m talking about the female mini phono jack that connects to the board for with a 4 pin JST connector. Cable is used for connecting the programming cable to the board.
The C19 I picked up has a Phoenix P8 installed, but Ken didn’t mount the programming jack on the loco. Probably only connected it when needed. I could use one. Not impossible to make, but plug-n-go would be better.
Yep, that’s it 
Fill for character count.
How much is the ransom ?
It’s in the mail, Jon.
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I am surprised that Cliff didn’t walk away with my lady’s passed down Pennsyltuckian Crumb Topping apple and cherry pie recipe!
Hell who knows maybe he did? So that means I don’t have to email those that asked for it .
Cliff can mail it to you !!
I found the pull string Sean. It lead to a battery pack inside box number (1/2) ZERO. Cliff took the string though!
Dang,
Hollywood is getting awful gray!