Studio Holiday Card 2005
On a personal side, Bob has enjoyed model railroads and model building since he was a child in his parent's basement on Lawndale Street in Philadelphia. He has combined this skill and interest with his professional work in set construction and model making for use in his award winning photographs.
2005 was the year Bob finally began his own HO scale layout including, among other venues, a logging operation. To celebrate this event we featured this shay engine on our studio holiday card.
Copy on card reads:
"Shay Locomotives allowed logs to be transported in all seasons and for much less expense than previous methods. It's one sided gearing replaced typical rod engines whose powerful pistons were too rough for the temporary tracks used by loggers. Patented in 1881 by Ephraim Shay these engines were in use until the 1950's.
Our Shay is shown with three logging cars and a small caboose called a crummy. Crummies were shacks on wheels giving the train crew some shelter and a pot belly stove to brew coffee."