Rusty Rails Coffee Mug
This was a mug produce long ago for members of the Rusty Rails group.
This was a round-robin model railroad group, headed by Vic Prior, and centered mainly in North Orange County, CA. Its history spanned the 1970s through the early 1990s.
A typical Friday night started with an operating session followed by videos or slide presentations. Afterwards, many members would go to Denny¡¯s for clam chowder or chili.
This group supported and staffed many Cajon Division meets and put on the ¡°Cajon Rail in '86¡± Pacific Southwest Region/NMRA convention in Ontario, CA, and the ¡°Doing 90 Down Cajon¡± Pacific Southwest Region/NMRA convention in San Bernardino, CA, in 1990.
Members I can recall included Tom Becker, Frank Cotta, George DeFrancesco, Ralph DuBois*, Cliff Edlund*, Steve Guccione, John Hachey*, Mike Hazzard, Dick Hutchins*, Mel Marquardt*, Jeff McKee, Ed McNamara, Terry Myers, Vic Pryor, Todd Scott, Dwayne Sikes, Pete Solyom*, Art Sousa, Allen Sterris, David Widrig and me.
Frank Cotta owned Iron Horse Hobbies in Brea and Vic Prior and Steve Guccione opened Discount Train Warehouse, also in Brea.
A number of these folks have passed (*) but they were all model railroaders to the end.
I had a lot of great memories and friendships from those days long past.
Bob Chaparro
Moderator
Model Railroads of Southern California
