Tom Daniel's Bad Water Western RR

Tom Daniel's Bad Water Western RR layout; RM Jan '74

Last night I was re-reading John Olson's article about his Cielo Lumber Co. layout that appeared in the January 1974 issue of Railroad Modeler. As often happens I wound up rummaging through the entire issue. In the process I stumbled across this photo of a little 2'x4' layout built by Tom Daniel. 

You may recall that a few years ago I wrote about how Tom Daniel was one of Railroad Modeler's founding contributors. He published a number of articles there from Dec '71 to Nov '72, but then wasn't seen again in its pages. Well, even though he didn't have an article in the Jan '74 issue, this photo of a layout he built for the Model Railroading Industry Association show held in Orange County, California in October 1973 was in it. So, it looks like he was still doing something with model trains in '73 and '74.

The accompanying article about the show mentions that Daniel's diorama "... incorporates a large highway in a logical manner. More on this in later issues." Well, this is 30Squares, so I'm off to look up those later issues :-)