John Armstrong (1920-2004)

Just received an email from a listserv about a memorial service for John Armstrong. Anyone have any details?

"John Armstrong's Memorial service will be at 3PM on Sunday, August
15th, at Northwood Presbyterian Church in Silver Spring MD. (1200
University Blvd West, at the intersection of University and Arcola.) -- "

John Armstrong passed away on July 28, due to illness.

http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/A ... 3wlljd.asp

The hobby has lost a true legend indeed. His ideas on track planning and operation, not to mention his keen modeling eye, have all shaped this hobby in more ways than we can count...

-otto-

By the way, John Armstrong was the author of over 300 model railroad articles in various books and publications... the first dating back to 1948 detailing the plan for his Canandaigua Southern railroad.

http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&sor ... 2C+JOHN%22

A prolific model railroad designer indeed...

-otto-

Among John Armstrong's numerous track plans are, I believe, several of the unsigned ones published by Atlas.

John also knew a great deal about real railroads. His "The Railroad: What It Is, What It Does" is the best single volume introduction to railroad engineering (as in choosing routes) , operations and economics that I know of.

As many of his other writings show, he had a great, gentle sense of humor.

The videotape on John's O scale Canandaigua Southern in Allen (spelling?) Keller's Great Model Railroads series is a lot of fun.

The Allen Keller video:
http://www.allenkeller.com/GMR28.htm

And more good information about John...
http://www.trainboard.com/cgi-bin/ultim ... 001643;p=1

-otto-