Thought I would share some photos of the show with everyone. Got to meet Ian (powlee)and his wife:
Marc and I working the booth:
One of the railroads we saw had 4000 (yes 4000) feet of track!
Saw a rattlesnake during our travels:
A narrow-gauge Porter on display at the Adobe Mountain RR park:
I got to be the engineer of a ride-on train--pretty cool! Here's the view from the engineer's seat:
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Thanks for the pictures! I don't know which is cooler the biggest layout (4000 ft track, wow) or that shot of the ride on (looks like the real thing). I was on the freeway leaving a train show in NY and got passed by a sd40 or similar engine that had canadian plates on the trailer. You got anymore shots of either?
BTW Forget the snake, I worked in Phoenix, AZ for five years and they'll crawl in any shade they can find. Being from NY, I never got used to checking for scorpions, snakes, spiders, etc. Oh yeah, how about "but it's a dry heat" = 126 degrees in the shade!!!
Greetings Rene,
Many thanks for the photos, they are the first that I have seen from the Show. Not sure about the serpent however. Luckily that's one thing we don't have here.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
https://www.buckfast.org.uk/
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
Rene, does the 4000' track have a web site?
And check your email!
Toad
Toad,
I did some searching and could not find a site for that railroad. However, the Arizona Big Train Operators have a lot of pics on their web site. There were several railroads with 2000+ feet of track on tour.
4000 cars and 370 engines are waiting to travel on that track and it is being expanded.
All with Kadee couplers and metal wheels!!!
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