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42nd National Narrow Gauge Convention- Tacoma
I haven't been to a train show for almost 4 years and at the last minute decided to take advantage of being able to fly free (youngest son works for Delta) and hop a flight to Sea-Tac last Friday. If Brett OK's I'll share a few highlights. Elsewhere Ben Popper has talked about his team's fabulous display On3 layout "Hangman Creek Lumber Co". Here are a couple of videos from my shaky walk-around. I think they get the concept across- it was a real show-stopper! Ooops- doesn't look like I can post a video but I am more than low-tech. Maybe my old pal Karl A can tell me if it will work. I do have a photos.
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I / we would all love to see some pictures too, Ben and Randy did us all proud with their wins and we'd all like to see your view of things. Great that you got to see it all in person.
So good to talk to you yesterday and catch up, if you have any problems just ask here or call me after work tomorrow.
I hope I figured this out last night late but am so low-tech I won't remember how I did it. This is first-half of my walk around Hangman's. Karl will be very proud of me.
The last picture was voted best of show. Randy
Second-half Hangman's I hope.
Eureka!
Thx for sharing.
Now I can't post a photo of it. Soon.
Randy it will be good to go back to St. Louis especially since they were COVID'ed out a couple of years ago. The lineup the next few years: 2023 Denver, 2024 Pittsburgh, 2025 St. Louis, and 2026 Twin Cities in Minnesota.
I am chair of the organizing committee that just presented last week the bid that was successful for 2026. Hopefully these locations will be able to attract Brett, Karl, and a lot of you folks in the next few years.
Congratulations on the 2nd place win Mike.
I hope I can make Pittsburg in 2024!
Jerry
You old bottle of wine this is one of he best for sure.....Carl......
Dale's ties are beautifully detailed and weathered and are of course hand cut. His track spikes are cut by hand in two sizes and the rail is a combination of code 40 and code 55.
And the turnouts he builds in place on the layout- no radius like #4 or #6- are all built custom to the track plan. Scenery, structures, rolling stock are great and the backdrop is from Dale's photos taken in Colorado,
Did you by chance get any pics of the pile driver? Saw it on FB but hoping you have some close ups.
Brian Block won his third B.O.S. in Tacoma for his model shown in Randy's post above. It is a great example of model building. It is similar to one he won with several years ago in Houston, the Gator Hotel. A terrific model that had more votes than one of the best models I have ever seen- also shown below, based on the SWSM engine house that was scratchbuilt in O scale by our own Karl Allison. Sorry the last two images are too small, but you get the idea.
The point is that the NNGC is a popular vote model contest, and the voters are from all aspects of the hobby. Brian's great models are really not RR oriented but IMO somewhat very imaginative caricatures that will have great appeal but are not really apples-to-apples. Playing to the crowd is not only fair but a good strategy. But it is all just rock 'n roll and part of the game.
The moral here is let's all not take ourselves too seriously. This is fun, and nothing is more fun than building Brett's great kits. Perhaps the only thing more fun is inspiring other folks, especially young model builders to try a SWSM kit. What a favor you are doing them!
Brett's kits have won many, many awards at national model shows. I am not aware of any other craftsman kits winning any.
Congrats on the award win and the placement. You did a beautiful job on the build and should be very proud of the result.
This is Ben Popper's Flanger that won the MOW category at the NNGC. Incredible modeling.
This hobby of ours is so great with the many different approaches to modeling and railroads. I've bounced through various scales and different types of railroads but the realism I can build around using Brett's amazing kits keeps drawing be back to 1/48 narrow gauge modeling. Thank you all for the fantastic information and support provided by each of you on this forum.
I also want to say that there were some other awesome layouts on the tour. One of them was Roger Nulton's Monon R.R. 4th Sub.Div. in Tacoma. His scale is S gauge.
Another outstanding layout was Mike O'Connell's O Scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co.
The Washington State Museum Had a great HO scale layout by the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers of the Tacoma area in the 1950's
Bill Messecar in Kent, HO scale Santa Fe 3rd District LA Division model railroad had some great structures that he had scratch built.
Bill Busacca in Shelton, RGS Dolores to Rico SN3 layout was another fine layout.
There you have some more highlights from the wonderful layouts in the Seattle area
Thanks to both Mike Engler and Karl Laskey for inspiring me to build the sawmill.
Barry Dupler