Born in 1891, Cronkhite became owner of Liberty Electric Company, a manufacturer and dealer of radio equipment in Stamford, Connecticut.
[1][2] He also operated an amateur radio station, call letters ICBG, from a small building on the corner of Clapboard Ridge Road and North Street[3] in Greenwich, Connecticut.
[4] "The finest model systems in the U.S. are credited to Minton Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can.
frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs," Time magazine wrote in 1937, on the occasion of the third annual meeting of the National Model Railroad Association.
Commissioned by Baldwin Locomotive Works for donation to the Smithsonian's U.S. National Museum, the nonoperable model of Pennsylvania Railroad class S2 No.