Ed McC Accomplishments
1992–2017 Ed McC was a member of the club beginning at location 2, 3200 Washington Street, in February of 1992 until his passing in November of 2017.
Ed was into large scale outdoor railroading and was active at the Able Springs & North Texas Railroad near Quinlan Texas. He was building a live steam locomotive at the time of his passing. Photo below (December 1997) shows one of Ed's locomotives. COSLAR from "Coming out smelling like a rose".
Ed created the first club website homed on www.coslar.us. Webmaster note — site still active but all pictures are gone.
August 2009 Ed was active in the NMRA Standards & Conformance Department. In August of 2009 he was recommended for the NMRA Meritorious Award by Didrik Voss, Manager of the Standards and Conformance Department.
(Newsletter April 2011) Ed’s NMRA award — If you missed the February meeting and haven’t checked Ed’s website lately, you may not have heard that Ed received the NMRA Achievement Award for his ongoing work on wheel and track standards. Only 61 such awards have been presented since the award was developed, so we have a distinguished member. Congratulations, Ed.
circa 2005a Bird River — built curved crossover.
circa 2005b Price Yard — built all turnouts, including slips, next to Chyrokes Yard. Webmaster note — slips were removed in December of 2019.
circa 2005c Williamsburgh — assembled McCamey/Westwood building.
Sep 2004 Gym — took part in the wall teardown
xxxx Ed was a past President of the club.
circa 2001 Band Hall — conducted classes on decoder installation
Nov 1995 helped build the floor at the Texan, with Bill LeR, Paul, Tom B, Ray Y.
1994 Ed served as one of the club representatives to the North Texas Council of Railroad Clubs.
circa 1992 3200 Washington Street — demonstrated hand laid track.
circa 1961 at Bobbie Halls hobby store — met John Allen who gave the 15 year old Ed a demonstration in how to hand lay an HO gauge turnout.
2017 — The following two items are from the Rob D blog
Fri, 2017-11-17 15:26 Blog A long time member of the club has passed on, I believe Thursday the 16th of November. Ed was also a member of the NMRA and involved in some of the special interest groups of the NMRA. He did not get out to the club often but was very supportive and a good friend to all. Ed had several health issues that he had been fighting for the last several years. He was also a modeler who built large scale outdoor locomotives, and cars.
As a model railroader he was an excellent craftsman and well respected by his peers. He will be missed by all that had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Tue, 2015-11-24 22:21 Blog Our man Ed made an appearance at the club. Ed has been a long time member who has very diverse interests in model railroading and in the number of prototypes he is interested in. I am not talking something as mundane as Pennsylvania or New York Central here he looks at many gauges and prototypes from around the world as well as scales. Ed does some live steam and other forms of power that one can ride on as well as HO scale and O and many others. He is presently working on a Garrett Locomotive that is 2 foot gauge in OO scale. The item in question is an etched brass model and in building it he uses several different types of solder that has various melting points, working from highest temperature to lowest.
Ed is one of those guys that builds truly stunning equipment and much of it is stuff you might not have ever heard of. He has also been very busy with his church and lots of goings on there.
August 2009 — Meritorious Award Letter of Recommendation
December 1997 — Bob T Photo
Ed on his "electric" COSLAR RR diesel locomotive #407. Ed was active at the Able Springs & North Texas Railroad.
circa 2005b — Price Yard
Rob D's Blog 16 October 2016
Here is an overall view of the new section and what it connects to. Now while I was doing this other things were going on as well. Webmaster comment — we dont have many photos of Price Yard, so am using this one. Bob E seniced the swamp to the right. Ed McC built the slip switches in the center.
circa 2005c — Williamsburgh, the McCamey/Westwood building.
The McCamey/Westwood building is on the right, a red brick with tower.