Great Scale Train Show
Here we go, The Great Scale Train Show. What a perfect day! We arrived about noon so we only had 4 hrs but I was confident we could get through everything and get all of my shopping done as well. It became a little hurried at the end, but it worked out fine because lots of the vendors were closing early because of Superbowl party plans. Enjoy the photos, and maybe you'll be lucky enough to enjoy my trains soon. 
In this shot you can see the two main lines and then 3 service lines on each side of the main lines.
A classic "War Bonnet" paint scheme running down the line.
The train-man to be.
This was one of my favorite backgrounds, nothing like a deforested mtn. side to bring home a message. Erosion anyone? It was real cool how the clubs did their layouts...each person brings a 4 x 2 sheet with at least two main lines at a predescribed distance from the front edge of the display. Then they all just link up and presto, they have a huge train set with all kinds of different scenes and track layouts. Three pictures above this you can see the difference because of the different colors of track.(rail road ties, base material)
I count 11 separate tracks here, all those turnouts allows a train to be 'built' while your running another train. What fun!
This bridge was amazing, and look at the rock work on the mtn. behind. If you didn't know better it could look like a real photo from out west about 150 yrs ago.
A giant 20 alarm(or more) fire. Look at all of those boom trucks and the pumpers in the bay topped the picture.
I think they said there was 161 coal cars in this train, it was reeaally looong.
Cars sitting at the drive in theater.
Shanty-Ville! Look at all of the detail stuff/ junk/ trash. It's amazing what people come up with.
A city park with of course a retired caboose as the center attraction.
A locomotive turnaround, I really want to incorporate one of these on my layout.
This old guy was posing for Elly's photo, so cute, just like an 8 yr old little boy who's proud of their train set.
Another nice example of a rock outcroping to finish the show. Check out that foliage, must be out East somewhere.
In this shot you can see the two main lines and then 3 service lines on each side of the main lines.
A classic "War Bonnet" paint scheme running down the line. 
The train-man to be.
This was one of my favorite backgrounds, nothing like a deforested mtn. side to bring home a message. Erosion anyone? It was real cool how the clubs did their layouts...each person brings a 4 x 2 sheet with at least two main lines at a predescribed distance from the front edge of the display. Then they all just link up and presto, they have a huge train set with all kinds of different scenes and track layouts. Three pictures above this you can see the difference because of the different colors of track.(rail road ties, base material)
I count 11 separate tracks here, all those turnouts allows a train to be 'built' while your running another train. What fun!
This bridge was amazing, and look at the rock work on the mtn. behind. If you didn't know better it could look like a real photo from out west about 150 yrs ago.
A giant 20 alarm(or more) fire. Look at all of those boom trucks and the pumpers in the bay topped the picture.
I think they said there was 161 coal cars in this train, it was reeaally looong.
Cars sitting at the drive in theater.
Shanty-Ville! Look at all of the detail stuff/ junk/ trash. It's amazing what people come up with.
A city park with of course a retired caboose as the center attraction.
A locomotive turnaround, I really want to incorporate one of these on my layout.
This old guy was posing for Elly's photo, so cute, just like an 8 yr old little boy who's proud of their train set.
Another nice example of a rock outcroping to finish the show. Check out that foliage, must be out East somewhere. 
posted by Toddo at 8:01 AM
1 Comments:
Looks like your layout is coming along nicely. I'd like to see your layout with your updates you bought at the show.
Is it O scale?
-JG
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