
"He was as supportive as any father could be. "If I have kids, I would just tell them that my dad was the type of dad that anyone would want to have." Hunter said. The would race each other playing Forza online and just talk and race. In retirement, Neil bought an Xbox to connect with Hunter. "I had never seen a prouder father than Neil at that moment." "He talked about that for weeks, about being on the ship, what it was like and seeing everything his son did." Popp remembered. I remember him saying that was one of his favorite things he’s ever done. "Sailed with us for the last 10 days of deployment. "My dad met us at Pearl Harbor and got on ship with us." said Hunter. His son Hunter is a Marine Corps veteran and remembered a trip his dad took with him near the end of his deployment in 2015. Neil leaves behind his wife, his two children and five step-children. BRICK MODEL RAILROADER (a new LEGO Train fan website that launched this. He was just a really nice guy." said Popp. Plus: Minifigure customizing from JARED K. "When we ran his obituary, I couldn’t believe the outpouring of sympathy and stories people had about meeting Neil or having talked to him on the phone before. Neil loved model trains, he loved racing slot cars and loved his Model A. There’s so many times where I’ll see something and I’ll want to tell him. "The problem is, is I still think about him every day. He’s gonna never have that feeling of being a grandfather." said Hunter, 27. One day he was doing good, the next, he was gone."īesougloff died of complications related to COVID on July 26th. Saying he had a heart attack and passed away. "Then the next think I knew, I woke up to a call from my stepmom. We feature beginner and advanced help on all model railroading scales, including layout track plans, model railroad product reviews, model train news, and model railroad forums. "They had him in the ICU for maybe a week or two, he showed signs of improvement." Hunter said. Model Railroader is the world's largest magazine on model trains and model railroad layouts. His son, Hunter, said he battled for about a month, eventually needing to be hospitalized. He retired to Mexico with his wife, Susy, in 2017. Before Model Railroader, he worked for Classic Toy Train magazine, both published by Kalmbach Media. Neil Besougloff spent a decade as editor at Model Railroader magazine, bringing his love of modeling and design to model train fans around the world from his homebase in Waukesha. That made a huge connection between him and the model railroading community." "Neil was very, very good on camera, he was very easy going. "Anytime we would go to train shows, anytime we would go to conventions people would come up to us and say oh my gosh, I just love your videos." David Popp, former managing editor and now executive producer with Kalmbach Media said.

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