June is the month for Steve King's Spring Meet in Rocky Mount, VA. This was the third year for the gathering of East Coast 7/8"ers and the best so far. Steve is the "father" of Maine style railroading in 7/8" scale and is producing the 2' Gauge James Wyman 2-6-0 kit, which is long since sold out. One of the highlights of the meet was a new international record set by Carl Brummer with his version of the James Wyman by pulling 15 cars as shown in the photo below.

I expect that some of the estate and industrial guys will say "Big Deal, we pull 50 cars all of the time." And this is so, but the train above was 45' long and could carry two or three entire estate or industrial railroads. Although Steve's meets tend to concentrate on the mainline models, the industrial and estate guys were also well represented.

Another highlight was the introduction of the log bunk cars that Steve and Dave Cummins teamed up to produce. These cars will soon be offered as kits and fully assembled.

The meet was on Friday and Saturday and as Friday came to a close, everyone started stacking their equipment in Steve's garage. This ended up being the largest collection of 7/8" scale and Maine style equipment ever assembled as shown in the photo below.

Although our gatherings tend to be small, we all had fun and learned from examining each other's models. I encourage all who can to plan on attending Steve's Meet next year. On the following page are some selected photos of the equipment.

Carl Brummer's 2-6-0


Dave Graley's Plymouth


Carl Brummer's Work Car


Dave Cummins' Caboose


Jim Massfeller's "General Lix"
Dave Graley's Caboose


Steve King's Log Bunk


Dave Graley's Plymouth

Jim Massfeller, Editor, S.A.