Frank Schmidt

[R.K. Maroon]

I received word that Frank Schmidt has passed away. I didn't know Frank from his days in Chicago and his associations with All Nation and the March Meet, but maybe others will fill in some of those stories. I met him after he moved to Austin. I have some photos of his layout there that I will post. He was quite the Santa Fe buff -- and a good guy too.

Jim

[up148]

I met Frank back in 1993 or 94 at the MM and then visited his layout a couple of times at subsequent shows. IIRC, he helped Mike Hill with the show during this time period and was always a presence at the show. His Chicago layout was in a relatively small basement broken up into several rooms and he was ingenious at routing his layout through walls and around the furnace and water heater. He also had some great UP locos and I think I bought one from him during that period. Very pleasant man from my experience. May the light be green Frank!