[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Passing of Dave Mewhinney

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Allman;


I received the information below from a forward; will relay if I hear
anything else.  Here is the email address from the photo website:
captvdeo at comcast.net
I would assume his family has access to this.


Phil






> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Allman <allmanr at verizon.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:04:20 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fwd:  Passing of Dave Mewhinney
> 
> any contact infor for family-address? email? to send condolences? Thanks! 
> RICH
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 6:13 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Passing of Dave Mewhinney
> 
> 
> >> "Andy Brusgard" wrote:
> >>
> >> Members and friends of NYSME
> >>
> >> It is with deep sorrow and regret that I received word today that New
> >> York Society of Model Engineers member Dave Mewhinney has lost his
> >> battle with cancer. He passed on peacefully at home in Illinois early
> >> this morning surrounded by his family.
> >>
> >> During the years that Dave lived in the New York area he was very
> >> active in the Society. Many of us smiled, even laugh, at his unusual
> >> selection of equipment. One rather long yellow and brown passenger
> >> train comes to my mind.
> >>
> >> Of course, I knew how ill he was, we e-mail back and forth a few
> >> times over the last months, but still, I hoped that I would get to
> >> see Dave again. A few of us from the New York Society are going to
> >> Chicago in March for the "O" Scale Train Meet and had hoped that he
> >> would be well enough to attend.
> >>
> >> In recent years Dave has become famous for his Dave's Electric
> >> Railroads web site. Most likely the largest collection of electric
> >> traction photos on the web
> >> See:
> >> http://www.davesrailpix.com/
> >>
> >> Please know that all the members of the New York Society of Model
> >> Engineers offer their deepest condolence to Dave's family in their
> >> time of sorrow.
> >>
> >> Andy Brusgard
> >> New York Society of Model Engineers
> >> www.ModelEngineers.org