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[[Adrian Buyse]] was a model railroader with broad interests, including O-guage, 1 inch scale live steam, and railroad photography. He was employed by Kodak and worked in the advertising department. He was instrumental in the early organization of the [[NMRA|National Model Railroad Association]]. | |||
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File:AdrianBuyse Kodakery v07 n05 1.PNG|RR Photographer - Dr. Adrian Buyse, KO (Kodak) Advertising, has taken thousands of railroad pictures, many of which have appeared in railroad magazines. Often he shoots at a distance to scale the subject down to O-gauge. Here he compares wheels of his Ferrovia line car with its prototype. A purist, who wants things right to the last detail, it sometimes takes him a year to complete an engine. A pioneer model railroader, he is past secretary and president of the National Model Railroad Association and was one of the founders of the Model Railroad Club of Rochester. From "Kodakery", February 3, 1949 | |||
File:AdrianBuyse Kodakery v07 n05 2.PNG|Roundhouse Talk - When you get a group of model railroaders together you might as well keep still unless you, too, talk shop. Dr. Adrian Buyse; Fred German, of KO (Kodak) Advertising; Howard Kirby, KO Sales, and Dean Reynolds, above, compare their O-gauge and HO-gauge engines and cars. The engines are their true prides | |||
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== Live Steam == | |||
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* [http://www.tehistory.org/hqda/html/v18/v18n2p055.html "When the Big Apple Line Ran in Easttown Township"] | * [http://www.tehistory.org/hqda/html/v18/v18n2p055.html "When the Big Apple Line Ran in Easttown Township"] | ||
* [http://www.nfr-nmra.org/Flimsy/NFR-50th-Anniversary.pdf "50 Years of the NFR 1947-1997"] | * [http://www.nfr-nmra.org/Flimsy/NFR-50th-Anniversary.pdf "50 Years of the NFR 1947-1997"] | ||
* [http://mcnygenealogy.com/book/kodak/kodakery-v07-n05.pdf "Kodakery", February 3, 1949] | |||
Revision as of 01:23, 26 February 2014
Adrian Buyse was a model railroader with broad interests, including O-guage, 1 inch scale live steam, and railroad photography. He was employed by Kodak and worked in the advertising department. He was instrumental in the early organization of the National Model Railroad Association.
RR Photographer - Dr. Adrian Buyse, KO (Kodak) Advertising, has taken thousands of railroad pictures, many of which have appeared in railroad magazines. Often he shoots at a distance to scale the subject down to O-gauge. Here he compares wheels of his Ferrovia line car with its prototype. A purist, who wants things right to the last detail, it sometimes takes him a year to complete an engine. A pioneer model railroader, he is past secretary and president of the National Model Railroad Association and was one of the founders of the Model Railroad Club of Rochester. From "Kodakery", February 3, 1949
Roundhouse Talk - When you get a group of model railroaders together you might as well keep still unless you, too, talk shop. Dr. Adrian Buyse; Fred German, of KO (Kodak) Advertising; Howard Kirby, KO Sales, and Dean Reynolds, above, compare their O-gauge and HO-gauge engines and cars. The engines are their true prides
Live Steam
The Big Apple Line
by Percy Pierce
The Miniature Locomotive, May-June 1953
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Live Steamers was held at the secretary's home on January 25, 1953 at which time plans were formulated for extending the trackage of our layout toward the club house. The new officers elected were:
President, Adrian Buyse; vice-president, J. Harold Geissel; treasurer, Kenneth Souser; secretary, Percy Pierce.
Adrian's model railroad activities follow:
- 1936-1941, President of the Model Railroad Club of Richester, N.Y.
- First 5 years, Editor of N.M.R.A. Bulletin
- 1940, Secretary of N.M.R.A.
- 1943, President of N.M.R.A.
- 1947, President of Niagara Frontier Region of N.M.R.A.
- President, Chairman Honors Committee of N.M.R.A.