Kenneth Shattock

Kenneth V. Shattock served as the Secretary of the North American Region of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers until his death, 6 May 2017.

Shattock was appointed Secretary of the Western Region of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers (IBLS) by outgoing secretary Harry Dixon in 1973.

GGLS

Victor Shattock, GGLS Founder, and his grandson "Kenny"

Ken Shattock “officially” joined the Golden Gate Live Steamers organization in February 1961. During that same year, he was a member of the GGLS Safety Committee along with member Tom Stambaugh.

However Ken lived with his grandfather (club founder Vic Shattock) from 1948 thru 1961. As a young boy growing up in his native Oakland, California, he attended those Friday night GGLS meetings in Vic’s basement and was exposed to the early day construction activities in Redwood Regional Park for many years. It is his personal memories as well as stories from Vic that have helped him contribute the more detailed facts in the overall founding of the Golden Gate Live Steamers organization. For this, the Club is indebted for this additional information. See Victor Shattock and Golden Gate Live Steamers.

Since March-2013, Ken has been involved in a long-term project of writing a "West Coast Live Steam Book".. It will detail the life story of Victor Shattock including his career on the Southern Pacific Railroad and how he was instrumental in starting the Live Steam hobby as we know it today in the United States. It will also include histories of other Clubs besides GGLS and will include biographies of other Live Steamers that Vic was affiliated with in one way or the other! Watch for it !!

Ken was active on several train-related discussion boards, including Chaski.org and TrainOrders.com, where he was known as "Key Route Ken" for his enthusiasm for the Key Route interurban system in San Francisco.

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  Volunteer "Conductor" Victor Shattock, shown in 1953 with grandsons Kenneth and James Shattock, get ready for an "at speed" run on the Golden Gate Live Steamers layout at Redwood Regional Park on a gleaming 4-6-2 wheel arrangement miniature steam locomotive.

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  It's JUNE-2002 in Oakland, CA and John Stashik, left, and "Key Route Ken" (Ken Shattock) at far right, discuss trip plans with bus driver Warner Vargas. "The Grand Key Tour" was a chartered bus tour of the former Key System, Sacramento Northern and IER interurban systems in the SF Bay Area. All of us "traction buffs" had a great day!!

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  Kenneth Shattock retired from the telephone company after more than 50 years.

Bibliography

• "Vic Shattock and the Golden Gate Live Steamers Part 1", Kenneth V. Shattock, Live Steam Magazine, Dec 1973
• "Vic Shattock and the Golden Gate Live Steamers Part 2", Kenneth V. Shattock, Live Steam Magazine, Jan 1974
• "Vic Shattock and the Golden Gate Live Steamers Part 3", Kenneth V. Shattock, Live Steam Magazine, Feb 1974
• "Vic Shattock and the Golden Gate Live Steamers Part 4", Kenneth V. Shattock, Live Steam Magazine, Mar 1974
• "Alcohol Burner For Smaller Scale Locomotive", Kenneth V. Shattock, Live Steam Magazine, Mar 1976
• History of the GSMRM and EBMES

References

• GGLS Live Steam Magazine Index
• History of the Golden Gate Live Steamers (see also this version with photos)
• "Ken Shattock", Chaski.org
• "Sad News, KRK Passes", TrainOrders.com