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This obituary for Terry Anderson
was written by Kathleen Anderson
and appeared in both the Vancouver Province and the
Vancouver Sun newspapers on Sunday, May 24, 2020. It is
reproduced here by courtesy of Kathy, who shared that this
lovely photograph of Terry was taken by her in Ireland in either
2013 or 2014.
See Pages 4 and 5 within for more
photographs of Terry and of the new Concession Building with
which he had much involvement, particularly as the acting General
Contractor.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This issue of The Whistle is the last
one that will be published in printed
form. Beginning with the next issue, only
digital versions will be published.
THE WHISTLEThe official publication of THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS
Operators of BURNABY CENTRAL RAILWAY Vol 50; Issue 3 – July/Aug/Sept 2020
Meetings
Notice of the dates, times, and Zoom links will be issued to members by E-mail.All members of the Society are encouraged to attend these meetings!
In this Issue
Until further notice, “Meetings” will take place online, using “Zoom”.
P.2 : Calendar / P. 3: President's Message; Communications Group / P. 4: Terry Anderson /
P. 5: The Concession Building / P. 6: Garden Railway Doings / Pp. 7-8: Restoring Toy Diecast Models
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published by, and for, the members of
The British Columbia Society of Model
Engineers (BCSME). Any opinions
expressed herein do not necessarily
reflect the policies of the Society. All
content is the copyright property of
The BCSME, and the individual
contributors.
BCSME Address & Track Site
Rainbow Creek Station
Burnaby, B.C., Canada
V5C 6K1
Editor of The Whistle
Paul Ohannesian
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6S 1A1
Submissions & Deadline
If a BCSME member has any articles
or photos that they'd like to submit for
publication, please send them to the
editor as an attachment in an e-mail.
e-mail's subject line. The more
submissions made by members of the
will be.
The deadline for any submissions
Means of Publication
I use Apache's OpenOffice suite on a
Mac Mini to create this newsletter.
OpenOffice can open almost any
Microsoft document file.
Photos are handled using The GIMP.
Any digital pictures being submitted
for publication should be in as high a
resolution .jpeg format as is possible.
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Communication about BCSME Concession and Bookings Business:
Ken Walker - [email protected] / Bruce Wilson – [email protected] / Tom Carr – [email protected]
President Kent Cavaghan 604-597-9018Vice-president Dennis Bosa 604-433-4698
Secretary Joe Holman 604-925-1879Treasurer Brian Carlson 604-980-3767Business Director Ken Walker 604-465-7278Site Manager Frank Fleury 778-227-7902
Operations Director Bruce Wilson 604-874-2667
Shop Director Chuck Laws 604-984-7507
Communications Director Tom Carr 604-463-9156Financial Review Bill McKenzie 604-789-2720
Until further notice, “Meetings” will take place online, using
“Zoom”. Notice of the dates, times, and Zoom links will be
issued to members by E-mail.
The BCSME Directors & Officers
Member Meetings
Directors' Meetings
As per Member Meetings above.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
As of June 30, 2020, it is not possible to
provide dates for most future events, as the
accurate planning impossible. Members
will be given Calendar information on a
case-by-case basis by E-mail and/or in
MEMBER PLAYDATES
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2020: 10:30 a.m. and on.No BBQ; No shared food; Bring your own lunch;
Physical distancing required; Mask optional.
ADDITIONAL PLAYDATES WILL BE HELD AS REGULATIONS PERMIT:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, and FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
Also check: bcsme.org
Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns make
the monthly Milepost, sent by E-mail.
President's Message
Well, it’s finally upon us! The Burnaby Central Railway opened on July 1st as promised and it was thanks to
all of the hard work our members did to get us ready. KUDOS!!
While I would like to say it was a great success, I would be lying, as we got soaked by a rather cold rain.
Surprisingly though, we had numerous guests come out despite the weather, with many telling us that theyare glad we are back up and running.
It was however a good preliminary run through of the procedures that have been put in place. We did
discover some areas that need minor improvement. For example the gate tent was not able to be set upwhich lead to very soggy attendants and likewise at the loading gate. We will hopefully have that corrected
by this coming Saturday’s opening. For the most part, things worked out well and the guests behavedappropriately and understood the measures we have put in place.
The weather forecast is to be good this coming weekend so we will have a chance to really see how things
will work.
To my mind the most important thing that happened were the volunteers who came out despite such rottenweather. I thank them for all of their efforts. Just some of the volunteers were Ross Johnson (who came
over from Victoria to help), Bruce Wilson who did everything from working the front gate to running trains,Tom Purden who also helped out wherever he was needed, Francina Carr, Catherine MacDonnell and my
wife, Linda – all of whom did everything from working the front gate, the loading gate andcleaning/sanitizing, and Dick Sutcliffe, who worked as our train cleaner. There were many more and I
apologize that I don’t mention you – ALL of you were important.
Given the conditions we have to operate under, it is even more critical that you come out to help. We arenot in the position of being able to start the day with only a couple of members as has happened in the past.
If you fear that despite the procedures we have put in place for your health will not protect you or those ofyou who have high risk family members, your health concerns need to come first, BUT if you can see your
way clear to come, the BCSME needs your help.
Lastly, we are now allowing limited parking inside the park during running days with certain conditions – 1)you must be parked no later than 10:30 – at 10:31 you will have to park on the street. 2) unless it is an
emergency, you will be there for the day until after closing, and 3) no double parking or parking in areasthat we normally do not allow.
Well enough for now – I hope to see you at the track,
Kent Cavaghan, BCSME President
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Communications Group Formed
On Monday, June 15, a new BCSME Group “met”, using Zoom technology. Its purpose, as stated in the
meeting agenda and agreed to by all present is to implement “a coordinated approach to communicatingwith our members and promoting the Burnaby Central Railway (BCR). This approach includes getting the
word out and sending the same message through each media format. These include The Whistle on a 4issues/year format intended for both Members and Non-Members (Paul Ohannesian, Editor), The Milepost on
a monthly format, intended for Members (Joe Holman, Editor) containing important club notices, ourBCSME.org website, with both Member Only and Public access portals (Patrick Schafly, Webmaster), various
Social Media, possibly including Facebook and Instagram (presently under study) and Advertising (JohnRoberts) in which we will seek to get “the biggest bang for the buck.” j
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Terry Anderson Pictured
There is no doubt that Terry was active in many ways in the BCSME, and his smile was contagious. The following
cropped photographs were selected from The Whistle for dates since 2014. Each caption names the issue date,though not detailed information about the subject. Photographers are notated thus: (FC) Francina Carr; (FF)
Frank Fleury; (PBO) Paul Ohannesian; (JR) John Roberts; (GW) Gerry Wittenberg.
October 2014 (KC) December 2014 (FF) February 2016 (FC)
Sept. 2016 (GW) January 2017 (FF) January 2017 (FF) January 2017 (FF)
January 2017 (FF) January 2017 (FF) February 2017 (PBO)
2017 (FF) February 2018 (JR) January 2020 (FF)
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The Concession Building
Almost standing as a permanent memorial of Terry Anderson, the BCSME Concession Building was partially
designed by Terry Anderson, who actually stepped down as President in order to take an active role in itscreation. Terry oversaw the choosing and ordering of all the kitchen equipment, and, most importantly, he
played the role of General Contractor when it became a necessity. That is never an easy job, and Terryuncomplainingly carried it out to perfection.
Photograph courtesy Paul Ohannesian
Photograph courtesy Paul Ohannesian
Photograph courtesy Frank Fleury
Photograph courtesy Frank Fleury
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Garden Railway Doings
Although the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns have interfered with train-running activities on the Garden Railway,
the Group is actively constructing new features to improve an already-significant layout to a considerable extent.Chief among these projects is the construction of a Steaming Bay and also of a Pedestrian Cross-over that will
allow for access to the inner “Island” track without opening the folding rail pass-through of the outer tracks, thusbringing its trains to a halt (or, in worst-case scenarios, resulting in rapid descents of locomotives and rolling
stock toward the hard, hard ground!). Here are a few photographs, taken by Paul Ohannesian (except for thefinal two, which are from the Northern Colorado Garden Railway) , that illustrate the work in progress:
The last photo in the row above, and the three photos below, illustrate the way in which new storage for entire
trains all connected up and ready to run can be built. As shown, the ground behind the Section House has beenprepared and the rear wall made ready for a door to give access to a storage locker similar to the one illustrated
below. This example comes from the Northern Colorado Garden Railway.
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RESTORING TOY DIECAST MODELS
Text and Photographs by Paul Ohannesian
The society-wide lockdown brought about by the 2020 Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic has pulled everyone,
including yours truly, completely out of our regular activities. And so, a gift from a fellow BCSME member
became a nice surprise. He is Joe Carroll, an “old hand” in our organization. Joe grew up in Birkenhead(Merseyside), England. His boyhood toys included the Meccano Ltd. Company's Dinky Toys. He acquired a
goodly number of them, as well as the more miniature Matchbox Toys. As a father, he saw to it that hissons Patrick and Michael and daughter Jennifer had such toys to play with too.
I also grew up with Dinky Toys. My mother was a British war bride. After WW II, my “English Gran” began
to send regular packages to us, containing treats like Quality Street candies, McVitie's Chocolate DigestiveBiscuits (yum!) and, especially for me and my brothers, Dinky Toys. Our collection grew to several dozen.
However, when I and my two brothers had grown up, my folks found various new recipients for our toys,including the Dinky's. Nowadays such toys are valuable collectables, but back in the 1960's, they were just
one more bit of clutter for parents to get rid of. This is a very common story amongst collectors!
In 2010, however, I asked my brother David if he still had any of them, and it turns out that he did: about
six or eight. He very generously turned them over to me, leading to my becoming an avid (and fairly
expert) bidder on eBay to acquire more, especially ones that matched our “lost” toys. I soon discovered thejoys (and frugality) of buying the most “playworn” examples and restoring them as closely as I could to their
one-time splendour. My collection grew, and by 2015, I had several dozen Dinky Toys again, all glowing inthe restored “like-new” condition I put them into. During that time, I told Joe about my hobby, and he
shared my enthusiasm, so much so that earlier this year, he made me the gift of a goodly number of olddiecast toys that had been well-played-with by his children and their friends.
And so, from January this year onward I spent many happy hours restoring these toys. I am showing here
a photo of a group of them before restoration, and another photo of them afterward. My livingroom lookslike a toy store now! My very patient wife Susan “puts up with” my hobby, so long as I dust and vacuum
them regularly!
It turned out that Joe had retained one model that was especially meaningful to him and his wife Marjorie:
a Dinky Toy Hillman Minx automobile. Joe's first auto was a Minx. He asked me if I would restore it in its
original colours. Would I! I drove over to Joe's house in North Vancouver and picked it up. The captions under the following photographs tell the rest of the story (see next page).
To conclude, I want to mention the DTCA, the Dinky Toys Collectors' Association. This English organization
publishes a lavishly-illustrated Journal and maintains a fascinating website: http://dtcawebsite.com . Have a look! It's one more way to pass your time during the lockdown. You're welcome!
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RESTORING TOY DIECAST MODELS (continued)
Dinky Toy Hillman Minx “before”.
Model stripped of paint; paint chip samples.
The finished restoration; Joe and Marjorie proudly displaying it at their home.
Photograph courtesy Paul Ohannesian
To wrap up this issue of The Whistle, here is the beautiful Wisteria Tunnel in May
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