Andy Sperandeo

Andy Sperandeo (1944/5 – October 2, 2015) was an editorial employee of Model Railroader Magazine since 1979. He was executive editor after being the magazine's editor previously. He also wrote a few books on model railroading such as Easy Model Railroad Wiring, The Model Railroader's Guide to Freight Yards and a few other books. Sperandeo hosted a video once called Model Railroads In Action: 5 Layouts From Great Model Railroads Magazine which is a rare video to find. He was also an operator on Model Railroader's Club Layout the MR&T (Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy Railroad). He was on two episodes of Tracks Ahead, one which was the MR&T and the other dedicating John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid. When he was in the U.S. Army back in the 1960s, he was a frequent operator on the Gorre & Daphetid. One of John Allen's locomotives, No. 34, a 4-10-0 that John kitbashed from parts, resided in his office. He was building a home layout based on the AT&SF (Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe) at Cajon Pass, California in HO scale, circa 1947. Sperandeo died on October 2, 2015 at the age of 70.^[1][2]

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• Pictures of Andy Sperandeo's layout being Constructed
• 2009 Update of Andy Sperandeo's Cajon Pass Layout