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| From Two In One Layout; Railroad Modeler July 1974 |
The July 1974 issue of Railroad Modeler ran a story by Denis Dunning about the N scale layout of R. Stephens Wright who is one of the country's leading portrait artists whose talent does not end with the brush and canvas. I was curious to find out more about Mr. Wright, and found several sites featuring his art (here, here, and here for example). However, I didn't find much biographical information other than basics: he was born on 13 May 1903, attended Harvard, studied and worked in Paris, Chicago, and New York before settling in Pasadena in 1937, and died in Cathedral City, CA, on 5 April 1991.
Mr. Wright's layout was as equally impressive as his art. Stats include: housed in a 20'x60' room; 12 mainline loops, each with about 5 scale miles of track; 24 power packs; 175 locomotives; 18 stall roundhouse; 1,000 freight and passenger cars. You get the idea: huge and high quality as shown in the article's photos. Apparently Mr. Wright had been into model railroading since the early 1930s, starting as an early adopter of HO, then moving to TT, then to N, and finally, as of the time of the article, to Z. I'm curious to see if I can find out any more about this gentleman and his layout.
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