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ABOUT THE COMPANY Melvin Photos has grown over
the years, starting out as Rolling Stock Replicas in 1986 with the
intent of designing and manufacturing model railroad cars. While
some product development was completed, no commercial models were
produced. In the meantime, George tried selling black and
white photographs, which proved to be a success at the shows. Seeing
a success with the black and white photographs, color photographs
and slides were included in the inventory. In 2003, George decided
to change the name to Melvin Photos and by this time had started
consulting with Kathy about the operation of the business. Kathy
designed a database to track the inventory, increased marketing and
set up a bookkeeping system for George. In 2004, George and Kathy
were married and Kathy continued on as a consultant in the business
and George started teaching her about the various aspects of the
products they carried. For the past 20 years they have traveled around the country taking photographs and doing research on railroads, wildlife and scenery to include in their inventory as well as buying collections to add to their resources. Today, George and Kathy partner in all aspects of the business. They have transitioned their photo sales primarily to Ebay. The sale of prints at train shows has been phased out. George and Kathy have plans to introduce a new digital book sometime in the future called Bucket List on a Budget. This book will describe how to travel on a budget. Since 2004 George and Kathy have traveled to 48 of the 50 states, Hawaii and Alaska are still on the Bucket List. George has started working more on his modeling, hoping to write articles and do presentations on how he scratch builds some of his buildings and showing the progress on his layout, which is still in the planning stages at this time.
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