Nick Muff's teen adventures on Westside Lumber Co for Mt Vernon Clinic of 4DPNR 19 Apr 2021
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- View the narrow-gage Westside Lumber Company with three teenagers and a home-made speeder in this amazing saga of Nick Muff's adventures, shown here in both still photos and home movies. It all took place over three summers in the early 60's, when Nick really wanted to photograph the railroad in order to model it. Many books and videos have been published about this famous three-foot gage logging railroad which ran three-truck shays into the 60's, but few have captured the entire right-of-way from a modeler's perspective as Nick has. The way he tells it, it's a real "Huck Finn" coming-of-age tale of life winding along the tracks and trestles! The resourcefulness of these three teenagers out in the wilderness is astounding! He also shares photos of many of the historical artifacts from the Westside in his personal collection, and takes Q&A with the audience briefly at the end.
The 3000 photos and home movies that Nick took during these trips are available on a 2 CD collection. For more information on how to obtain a copy, contact Nick at muff_nicholas@msn.com .
In his modeling pursuits, Nick ended up in his adult life modeling the standard gage railroads in and near the famous Kansas City Union Station, which you can watch him describe in another (equally amazing!) video that is available on this channel as • Nick Muff MMR Layout T... .
This video was recorded during the April 19, 2021, Zoom meeting of the Mount Vernon monthly clinic of the fourth division of the Pacific Northwest Region (www.4DPNR.com) of the National Model Railroading Association (www.nmra.org), chaired by Ted Becker and edited by Burr Stewart. - Věda a technologie
Man-O-Man, What a story! What an adventure this was for you and your 2 friends, and good friends by the way for being so keen to keep doing this over and over so many times with you and of course supportive parents to humor your passion. I love the ingenuity you guys all showed in development and overcoming obstacles during all of these outings and that you recorded all of this in pictures and movies. I loved the scenes of your friend with the black cowboy hat riding shotgun on the front of your #3 speeder. The fact that you 3 teenagers survived out in the woods alone for 2-weeks on the last trip is a testament to your fortitude in those days. Young kids today cry when they get a flat tire or run out of gas in town on a paved surface Ha ha. This is definitely a Top %1 You Tube video about adventure and a Top %.0001 For railroad historians, modelers and enthusiasts alike. Glad you saved some of the artifacts and I hope you have it in your will to donate them to a museum for everyone else to see them. @39:26 were you guys eating old K-Rations from WW2? They looked like miniature boxed Army rations for sure. Also, on the last trip you made that lasted 2-weeks, did your father meet you all at some point for a resupply of foods? ❤💯👍👍
Fantastic story, photos and memories! Thank you for sharing!
I'm sure glad you did it because it's something I could only dream about doing. Thanks for sharing a wonderful adventure.
AMAZING!
The story.. the history.. I doubt the "history" element of the experience was given a whole lot of consideration, but seeing the videos and photos was fantastic.
Enjoyed your FANATIC video. My family had a cabin in Twain Harte. My mother took us their for the summer. My father (a railfan) came up on the week-end, ,so had many trips to the Westside yard in the 1950's. Took the tourist railroad to River Bridge in 1980 with my dad.. Thanks for the memory!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic photos. Thank you for putting this on CZcams. Westside was a wonderful place in the 1960's.
Glad you enjoyed it
1:20 thats West Side Lumber #9. Its currently in my home town of mount pleasant iowa.
What an incredible adventure Nick, thank you so much for sharing. I think it is time to start your Westside layout!
We agree! :)
Great photos. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Are these tracks still there ?
Just the part from Tuolumne-River Bridge #8 I believe, but all heavily overgrown.