Guys,

For those who may not have seen it, I received through the STMFC, the following message from Sandra:

Dear Mike,

I've gotten so many cudos to Richard .. it's a shame he isn't here to hear them. Thank you for your kind words. And please relay to STMFC my thanks. This was so sudden and unexpected that I still don't know what I'm doing.
Sandra

Mike Brock

Sandra has been reading them on Richard’s computer.       Tony Thompson

I have hesitated to respond since it could easily be repetitious, but Richard was a great help with the freight car chapter in my book. In the end, I could only think of an expression I have heard:

"When someone dies, a library burns."

Never more appropriate than now. RIP Richard.


CJ Riley
Port Ludlow WA

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Bob Witt

I met Richard early on at Naperville and had the the privilege to talk with him a couple of times. He truly was an exceptional person. The depth of his knowledge was amazing. As much as his loss to the modeling world is, is it possible to create a compendium of all the railroading comments he made to this list and others who received information from him, with the real facts according to Richard Hendrickson. An awful lot of railroad knowledge passed with him and we'll never be able to ask him any more questions. Could this knowledge be compiled some how before it's lost for all time? It would be a great tribute to him.

 Was there a 'favorite' Santa Fe car of his he worked on with the manufacturers to produce or one he mentioned during his conversations with fellow ATSF modelers?   If not, I'll go with the Westerfield ATSF Bx-11 as my recommendation.

    I would suggest the Bx-3 as Richard was the one who first saw the masters and suggested they go to Al.

-- 

Jon Miller
For me time stopped in 1941
Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS

The greatest tragedy of Richard's death is that at 83, he was still a person of physical vitality (to my knowledge, he still flew aerobatics in his own Citabria airplane), and his undiminished productive mind continued on at a pace that those younger might only envy. He was not ready to yet wind down his life; nor was there any need that I last knew about to actually consider doing so.

I don't know….

Tom,

    And lean on JJ !!! For years we've been trying to get him to get on line. At least point him to the Franklin library.

Chuck Hladik

In a message dated 7/4/2014 3:15:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, STMFC@... writes:

Tim and Rich,

Many thanks for the help in regard to the "B" end of the ATSF FE-22.
John Johnson is in the process of building the F22 and since he does
not have internet access, I was asking for him.
Thanks to your information, I will copy the photo and forward it to
him so that he can complete the car.

Best regards,

Tom Olsen

 > Just to add to what the "Boss Brock at the Beach" has reminded us of, without the inspiration of
  > Richard there would have never been a SHAKE N TAKE... and so many other things to numerous to mention.
  > Greg Martin


Just out of curiousity about Richard's influence on myself, I just checked
all of my email archives simply for saved emails from Richard -- There are a total
of 3,834 emails. Of course many of these take place in the context of discussions
with multiple people, so Richard's name is mentioned in tens of thousands more
emails. Of the total, 595 emails are from pre-Yahoo days of rec.models.railroad
and the FCN mailing list or just private or shared conversations via email. The
earliest are from 1996. The first Naperville meet was in 1994, and the first one
I went to was in 1995. So it was very soon after that (1996) that the emailing
began -- and it never stopped!

The amazing thing is that I can open any one of those saved messages and there is
always something interesting / useful / thoughtful in them (which is why I saved
them of course). So although I will never again have the pleasure of talking with
Richard he lives on in the printed word for as long as I can still read.

Tim O'