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For sale is one of several spectacular precision railroad drawings by the legendary professional scale model train builder, designer, developer, architect and artist Alan Brewer Armitage (1913 - that we are selling here in our store.
Armitage is a legend in the train modeling community and was honored with a #21 lifetime membership in National Model Railroading Association. His contributions to the scale model community and industry is legendary. These drawings were acquired from a sale and were all formerly from the artists estate.
This is a great opportunity to own one of his exquisitely rendered precision drawings of various railroad locomotives.
The drawing in this sale is as follows:
Train - Chesapeake & Ohio Train.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia\'s capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of Huntington, West Virginia was named for him.
Tapping the coal reserves of West Virginia, the C&O\'s Peninsula Extension to new coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads resulted in the creation of the new City of Newport News. Coal revenues also led the forging of a rail link to the Midwest, eventually reaching Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo in Ohio and Chicago, Illinois.
This is an original pen and ink drawing and is signed by the artist with his initials ABA far middle right.
Condition: Very good
Measurements: 13 3/8” x 19 5/8”
Alan Brewer Armitage (1913 -
- National Model Railroading Association (Lifetime Member Pioneer, 1997)
- The Massachusetts Society of Model Engineers (O Scale)
- New England Live Steamers
- Boston & Maine (Brakeman & Art Department)
- Professional Photographer
- Northeastern Scale Models (Developer & Designer) Designed famous “Yellow Box”
- Atkins & Merrill (Professional Designer)
- Models Unlimited (Van Nuys California
- 1964 Developed N Scale Kadee Rail Spiker (Medford Oregon)
- Kemtron Corporation (1965, California)
- Maineline Modeler (Artist)
- Train Miniature and Balboa Scale Models LaMesa California (Advertising & Photography)
- Private Owner Reeefers (Artist)
- Russ Tipple & Associates, LaMesa California (Architectural Scale Models)
- Micro-Scale, Santa Ana CA (Billboard signs)
- Precision Scale Models, 1979. (Freelance work)
- Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette (Contributer)
