William Fitt - Revision history

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 File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.
 File:LakeMeauwatakaAndWildwoodRailroad BillFitt ModeltecMay1984.jpg|Map of Bill Fitt's Lake Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, from Modeltec, May 1984.
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	: Horace's [[Whysall Light Railway]] in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan had about 1200 feet of track that ran from Woodward Avenue back along his property line for a ways before swinging off to the opposite side of his property, down a hill, across a little creek at the bottom of a valley and then back up the other side of the valley to the North property line again. It was an out-and-back operation: running backwards on the "out" run and heading back, locomotive-first, on the return trip. Part way down the hill on the first return run, a cow meandered across the track just ahead of the engine and slowed us enough to cause a stall on the up-grade.		: Horace's [[Whysall Light Railway]] in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan had about 1200 feet of track that ran from Woodward Avenue back along his property line for a ways before swinging off to the opposite side of his property, down a hill, across a little creek at the bottom of a valley and then back up the other side of the valley to the North property line again. It was an out-and-back operation: running backwards on the "out" run and heading back, locomotive-first, on the return trip. Part way down the hill on the first return run, a cow meandered across the track just ahead of the engine and slowed us enough to cause a stall on the up-grade.

	[[File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg~~\|thumb\|center\|400px~~\|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.]]		<gallery widths=400px heights=400px>
			File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg\|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.
			File:LakeMeauwatakaAndWildwoodRailroad BillFitt ModeltecMay1984.jpg\|Map of Bill Fitt's Lake Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, from Modeltec, May 1984.
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	== Riverside & Great Northern ==		== Riverside & Great Northern ==

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	== Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad ==		== Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad ==

			Bill Fitt, as editor and publisher of [[Modeltec]], wrote the following in the May 1984 edition:

			: Gold Spikes are a long time in becoming reality. For the Union Pacific-Central Pacific, it took six years and four months to the day from ground-breaking ceremonies to completion. For the Lake Meauwataka & Wildwood, it took sixteen years, two-and-a-half months. The Union Pacific-Central Pacific laid 1867 miles of track; the LM&W has about 3400 feet.

			: In both cases, the thinking, dreaming and planning took much more time than the actual construction. For the LM&W, the Gold Spike was the culmination of a dream that began in mid-July of 1937 when Horace Shaw, one of the pioneers in inch-and-a-half scale Live Steam, turned over the throttle of his 4-6-2 to young Bill Fitt. The Live Steam Bug bit right then and there and has never relaxed its hold!

			: Horace's [[Whysall Light Railway]] in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan had about 1200 feet of track that ran from Woodward Avenue back along his property line for a ways before swinging off to the opposite side of his property, down a hill, across a little creek at the bottom of a valley and then back up the other side of the valley to the North property line again. It was an out-and-back operation: running backwards on the "out" run and heading back, locomotive-first, on the return trip. Part way down the hill on the first return run, a cow meandered across the track just ahead of the engine and slowed us enough to cause a stall on the up-grade.

	[[File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg\|thumb\|center\|400px\|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.]]		[[File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg\|thumb\|center\|400px\|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.]]

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	== Books ==		== Books ==

			== Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad ==

			[[File:DorisFitt LeoMyers BillFitt 1984.jpg\|thumb\|center\|400px\|Leo Myers of Clayton, Missouri, describes the hammer made from a staybolt from the General of Civil War fame in the photo at right. Doris Fitt, Leo Myers, and Bill Fitt at the Golden Spike ceremony of the Meauwataka & Wildwood Railroad, October 1983. Paul Allen is seen on the trestle. Photo by Steve Chromik.]]

	== Riverside & Great Northern ==		== Riverside & Great Northern ==

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			[[File:BillFitt FloridaLiveSteamersYearbook1975 020.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Bill Fitt]]

	== Magazines ==		== Magazines ==

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			== Magazines ==

			[[Live Steam Magazine]]

			[[Modeltec]]

			== Books ==

	== Riverside & Great Northern ==		== Riverside & Great Northern ==

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			== Riverside & Great Northern ==

			In 1988, a group of volunteers led by William C. Fitt formed the [[Riverside & Great Northern Railroad\|Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society, Inc.]] and went to work to save the Sandley Works by turning it into a museum.

			== References ==

			* [http://www.randgn.com/history.html Riverside & Great Northern]

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