From the pages of Canadian Railway Modeller: Morgan Turney, in his own words

Some things never change—like post office strikes! Dealing with the postal service was one of Morgan’s many challenges publishing the magazine. If it wasn’t strikes, it was rate increases which he had to pass on to readers. And in this Dome Car he highlights the new Prototype Report sections, which I worked on with Bryce Lee (who was publishing prototype information online). Later, I took it over by myself. It sort-of was a precursor to Railfan Canada, which Morgan started in 2009. As I write this issue of 'From the Dome Car', my office is full of magazines waiting for delivery to our downtown main branch of the Winnipeg post office—and ultimately to you, our reader. The strike by Canada Post has been costly to all of us. Not only do we depend on them to get you your magazine, we also depend on them to deliver things to us like your article submissions, Proto Photos and Modeller' s Photos, news items, new products, subscription renewals, advertiser's artwork, bill payme...

Remember when collecting  President’s Choice trainsets was all the craze? Maybe some of you still have them in your basements or attics! When we cleaned out Morgan’s basement after his death, I think he had two of each set there. (Sold to support his widow, along with the rest of his model railroad collection.) Morgan was a big booster of Boris Polakow and his trainsets for Loblaws, seeing them as a way to introduce kids to the hobby.   When we think of manufacturers of model railway products, names like Walthers, Model Die Casting and Athearn quickly come to mind. Chances are you wouldn't include Loblaws in that group, but since 1992 the grocery chain-giant has been one of the largest retailers of model trains in Canada, selling 60,000 specially-produced train sets.   It all started with an idea by Boris Polakow, Vice President of Canadian Sales Development for Lob law's Private Label. As a kid, Boris was fascinated by trains, building three HO scale layouts with his...