Glenside sculptor Christopher Collins, owner of Collins Studio, was recently mentioned in Trains.com for his full-scale rendition of a historically famous dog.

The backstory: Heather Hill Worthington, a children’s books author, published a story about Roxey, the K-9 mascot of the Long Island Rail Road between 1901 and 1914. Donald Lipski, a world-renowned artist, read Worthington’s book, and decided to create a sculpture of the dog.

Lipski says he met Collins while living in Philadelphia and asked him to take part in the project.

“He is an actual sculptor, like Michelangelo,” Lipski told Trains.com. “I’ve mostly just taken objects and put them together. But when I found I needed an actual realistic sculptor who could help me and started using Chris, it was like magic.” 

The full-scale plaster models were created in Collins’ Glenside studio and shipped to Colorado for the installation.

For the full story, you can click here. For more on Collins’ studio, you can visit his website and Facebook page.

Photos courtesy of Trains’ Donald Lipski and Jeff Worthington