Over the weekend Vince contacted Tom Daniel with some questions about his Bad Water Western layout. Mr. Daniel proved once again to be a great guy and graciously answered Vince's questions about the layout. Here's an edited summary (Tom Daniel's comments are in "Courier" as is the convention here):
Tom Daniel's Bad Water Western module "won First Place" at the 1973 MRIA meet.
"At that same contest, John Olson also entered his HOn3 module which also won First Place in the 'Narrow Gauge" category. John and I became lifelong friends - and he - being an accomplished model photographer - among all his other talents - John became the official 'company' photographer for my Bad Water Western RR ..."
"There is NO actual operating BWW layout - rather, a series of modules, all still works in progress. The original Module Contest winner was unfortunately destroyed many years ago."
"Other than one or two shots in MR in years past; and the BWW images you saw via Max Models, there has been no definitive photo and text story about how the BWW came into being in 1949."
"Thanks for your interest in the Bad Water Western."
I'd like to thank Tom Daniel and Vince for giving their time to help clarify this interesting piece of model railroading history.
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