I have been slammed at work and haven’t had much time for trains as of late. What little time I have had I spent helping my friends with their layouts. To that end my friend Ed had a layout open house today. I was there for about an hour and despite the weather, it was well attended.
Here are a few shots I snapped at the event.
My friend Josh did a great job weathering my EM1. Here are a few shots as the EM pulls a coal drag on Ed’s Conrail NCR layout.
On Sunday the 28 my father and I skipped the second day of the N-Scale weekend in Altoona PA. to visit with Todd and Becky Treatster. Todd has one of the largest private collections of N-Scale cars around. He has almost every Mini trix, Atlas and Micro-trains car ever made. He owns over 21,000 cars and locomotives. He also has a 38×35 foot layout. The layout is set in the 90’s and features Conrail when it was at its best. He can run 180 car trains without a problem and has a heck of a good model of the giant Enola yard. I captured a few shots and a video of one of his coal trains. The video can be found on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/vB8FoTPV4qU
Did some running at Ed’s this week. Brought two Chessie SD9’s and a couple of Western Maryland F3A units. Ed put us to work testing his track work, the one Chessie SD9 has sound.
I took a Western Maryland SD35 in circus paint for a quick run on Ed’s Conrail layout. Ed is building an N-Scale layout for York PA.
You can find Ed’s site here: http://conrail1285.com/
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