Bruce Douglas

Jan. 7, 2011 Bruce looks on at the GEXR in Goderich. Photo by his good friend Gord Taylor. At one time Bruce lived in Goderich.

My long time friend Bruce Douglas age 82, passed this past week. We had been friends for over 40 years. Bruce was also a New England modeler and railfan that I used to get together with. Bruce also was a life member of the NMRA and once had a article published on how to model a MEC milk car in the model press. He worked in graphic design for newspapers in his working years and did a lot of neat RR printed things for different groups such as flyers and so on. He also for a number of years designed decals he needed for his model trucks. The last few years I could count on a few e-mails a week full of neat ship and railroad photos and topics. I already miss him a lot...George Dutka

Bruce made his own St. J truck decals in a number of scales. This is one of them he applied on a trailer he gifted me years ago.

Back in the 1980's when no milk cars were available other than brass he made his own milk cars such as this one from a Trains Miniature model. He gifted it to my a few years back. He modeled this one as seen in a photo he had of one of the Erie cars that only received a B&M logo, no paint. Not sure if it ever ran on the B&M or was storage.

Bruce began modeling scale trucks as he got older. Many of these he made his own decals for.

Bruce operating his layout when he was maybe 27. He modeled the St. J&LC in later years.

Bruce's favorite book. He did a paste up of it at one time.

Bruce put this together for me after my book came out a couple of years back.