Rich Caine of Becket, Mass., is no stranger around trucks. When he was growing up, his uncle owned a demolition company that used trucks and heavy equipment, and Caine started driving them around the yard when he was 12 years old.

“I learned a lot about trucks and how to drive them back then. My favorite truck to drive at the time was a Mack B61” he said.

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Thomas Kelly and his son, Rob Kelly, are father and son, co-collectors, co-builders and best friends. Thomas lives in Baker, La., and Rob lives in Jackson, Mo., but even with over 500 miles between them, they co-built a diorama to show at the 2023 Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Mass.

“We have been building dioramas together for years,” Rob said. “In fact, the first diorama I built with Dad was in 2003 for a 1/87 Vehicle Club show in Pennsylvania. I was so little when we built this diorama, Dad did about 90% of the work. Today, all of our dioramas are roughly 2x4 feet. We currently have four 2x4 modules, a road paving module, two crane modules and a portable asphalt module.”

​Don Nelson, a retired insurance agent in Orrville, Ohio, grew up around trucks, but, contrary to his childhood dream, he never became a truck driver.
“My interest in trucks began because both my grandpa, Greg Myers, and my neighbor, Dick Sidle, owned trucking companies,” he said.
Nelson’s grandfather owned G.R. Myers Motor Transportation, which hauled boiler parts for Babcock & Wilcox out of Barberton, Ohio.

Jim Livermore, Nashua, N.H., has been a writer for Toy Trucker & Contractor for about four years, sharing his love of trucks with others.
“I’m not your average writer. I didn’t go to school to write. To learn to write, I attended the 2019 National Toy Truck ’N Construction Show in Indianapolis,” he said with a laugh. “By 2019, I’d been a serious model truck collector for nearly 30 years, but I had never been to the national show. I decided it was time to go.​

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The historical building houses the displays of 19 area historical societies, which are judged following the Erie County Fair theme for the year. The 2022 theme was “Transportation.”

The Holland Crafts trucks were on loan from Aug. 6 through Aug. 21st, and received a lot of attention, since they were built 20 miles from the Erie County fairgrounds in Holland, N.Y. Not many who saw the exhibit were aware these toys were built locally, since Fisher-Price was the big toy manufacturer in another Erie County town, East Aurora, N.Y.