DC Union Station 100th Anniversary

[altterrain]

Official celebration of DC's Union Station this weekend of the 4th and 5th. The club will have a display there and lots of the real trains will be there including -

C&O F3 8016

B&O GP9 6604

C&O Gadsby Tavern

C&O Chessie Club

Southern RPO 36

Southern E8 6900

ACL E3 501

PRR GG1 4935

PRR E8 5711

PRR E8 5809

PRR 120

Little Juniata Rapids

Warrior Ridge

Greenwich Harbor

Cannon Ball

FRA DOTX 220

MARC bi-level

Amfleet Cafe Viewliner Sleeper

Superliner Transition Sleeper

Superliner Diner-Lounge

Superliner Sleeper

Acela

 

http://www.greatamericanstations.org/station-news/station-news/celebrate-100-years

 

-Brian

 

[Camaro1967]

Neat Brian, I hope you can post us some pictures of the day.  That is a cool place.

Paul

[altterrain]

I took a bunch of pics (more than a hundred!). Now I have to sort and edit them. I'll post a link to them when I do.

For now here are a few pics of our display and my 7/8n2 consist running on one of the loops. In the first pic you can see the headlight of the GG-1 in the window (top left).

 

 -Brian

[altterrain]

Pics of the locos and some of the passenger cars (and a few of the layout) -

Slideshow - http://w113.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/DC-UnionStation-100/62d9efe7.pbw

Album thumbnails -
http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/DC-UnionStation-100/?start=all

-Brian

[EMPIRE II LINE]

That's some good stuff to see, Brian.

Thanks for sharing it.....

Byron C.