Nice pics Larry, I'd love to see that 35 car train!
I have the ROW cleared thru my forest for laying track.
All I need now is money....
This web site will give you an idea of what it will take to get in the hobby.
"Plum Cove Studios" I met the owner at the show & I checked out their very informative web site. Most of the guys & gals at this show were running his box cab diesels. There were 2- B23's being unloaded when we left. There was 1 already there & I think I missed taking a picture. I liked their real crude turntable for unloading engines & cars from pickups & trailers & it actually worked real good. They also had 2 hydraulic lift tables for real heavy engines that worked even better.
This was a Great experience to see what the other scales do. There were also 3 diff. oval tracks for live Steam & Diesel in O scale & G scale.
They also had some tracks for 7&1/4" rail & a 4" rail that was entwined w/the rest of the larger rails.
Most of the people were real friendly, but, then there were some that didn't want anyone to touch their equipment or take rides. People pretty much stayed away from them & their trains. there was a 12hp briggs powered SW1500 pulling those 35 freight cars & some of the coal cars were carrying real loads. When we went to eat lunch at 1 of the train barns most of the younger people walked, but us old fogies took a train. When we got there, there was only one engine w/cars, when we got ready to walk back to the site there were about 15 trains clogging up the walkways. We had to squeeze between 2 tank cars to get back to the path. Lots of FUN-FUN-FUN.
