[modeleng] Ollie Johnston

Hi everyone
In today's Daily Telegraph there was a half-page obituary of Ollie Johnston, 
who died on Monday, aged 95.    He was a leading animator with Walt Disney and 
the last survivor of the .Nine Old Men' who had shaped the style of the studios 
files from Snow White onwards.    This may not be of much interest to member of 
our List - but wait - be patient!

I quote further:

Johnston was a great steam man and constructed what was regarded one of the 
world's best handbuilt scale model railways in his back garden.   More 
ambitiously still, he restored over a period of years a locomotive (which he 
called the Marie E) on his driveway and then purchased 40 acres of land at 
Julian, California, where he and his sons laid out track for the engine and the 
carriage he had built for it.

So now you all know!

Cheers!   Hubert
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