TrinityJayOne
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I went to a small railway exhibition this weekend and took a few pics/videos of the better layouts.
These two are from the one layout, which was quite good but had some major power issues early in the day and they couldn't seem to get it running again before we left the exhibition.
A yard layout with some really nice weathering. The flash kind of ruined the pic though, and sadly the ones that I took after turning it off were all blurry.
Three different variants of Aussie F-unit clones I've mentioned before in the back, a lash-up of two EL class diesels towards the front and some other diesels inbetween that I've forgotten the names of.
The JMRI display for the layout above. The layout was run by two brothers and their dad, who built it in their garage. It consists of a single track mainline with a huge staging yard in the back, a reversing loop with another mini staging yard (which sadly wasn't working yet, they had converted the layout to DCC only weeks beforehand), an industrial yard in the front and a passing loop. The layout + owners were fun and my brother & I chatted to the dad (who was just "the technical guy", the sons did all the driving) at length about their trains and the layout in general, and they were more than eager to bring out a particular train if asked. There were several mishaps and things going on along the way as well, which made things all the more interesting. You can see a near accident towards the end of the below video (HD viewable at Youtube). It's mostly a compilation of their layout, with the first two segments being from the layout that was having power issues. You'll need to excuse my horrible camera work, as these were recorded at high zoom with a cheap camera and the closet thing to a tripod was resting my arms on a safety railing that kept moving as people leaned on it.
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These two are from the one layout, which was quite good but had some major power issues early in the day and they couldn't seem to get it running again before we left the exhibition.
A yard layout with some really nice weathering. The flash kind of ruined the pic though, and sadly the ones that I took after turning it off were all blurry.
Three different variants of Aussie F-unit clones I've mentioned before in the back, a lash-up of two EL class diesels towards the front and some other diesels inbetween that I've forgotten the names of.
The JMRI display for the layout above. The layout was run by two brothers and their dad, who built it in their garage. It consists of a single track mainline with a huge staging yard in the back, a reversing loop with another mini staging yard (which sadly wasn't working yet, they had converted the layout to DCC only weeks beforehand), an industrial yard in the front and a passing loop. The layout + owners were fun and my brother & I chatted to the dad (who was just "the technical guy", the sons did all the driving) at length about their trains and the layout in general, and they were more than eager to bring out a particular train if asked. There were several mishaps and things going on along the way as well, which made things all the more interesting. You can see a near accident towards the end of the below video (HD viewable at Youtube). It's mostly a compilation of their layout, with the first two segments being from the layout that was having power issues. You'll need to excuse my horrible camera work, as these were recorded at high zoom with a cheap camera and the closet thing to a tripod was resting my arms on a safety railing that kept moving as people leaned on it.
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