Today I visited the annual Eurospoor show in Utrecht. As usual it was a very busy event with lots of beautiful layouts to see, and with the sad exception of 3-Rail O, lots to buy. However, after diligently searching every stall, I came away with quite a haul. No Lionel unfortunately, but after a bit of haggling, I managed to find a new-in-box LGB Amtrak Genesis loco with an Amtrak boxcar at an absolutely amazing price. Sometimes, being one of the very few US outline modellers in Holland has its advantages. 
Next spring, this locomotive will be gracing the rails in my garden.
i also found something that may be of great interest to many of you. I met a very nice German lady called Marion Zeller who manufactures rolling-roads in all gauges. She manufactures these herself, and each brass roller is individually milled by hand. The frame rails are steel, and as there is a centre rail, it works perfectly for either 2 or 3-rail use. I was so impressed with the quality that I immediately purchased one for my railway. I bought one 570mm frame and 4 O-gauge roller sets. This will accommodate every locomotive I have, from my Trackmobile to my DD-35A (I have just tested it with the DD-35A, and it works a treat.) If anyone is looking for a high-quality very reasonably priced rolling-road, then I would recommend these without question. Here is a link to her website (Sorry but it is only in German, but it's pretty easy to understand, and she speaks excellent English if you contact her with any questions.) http://marion-zeller.de Have a look at the videos to see them in action.
I also spent some time talking with the manufacturers of 'T' Gauge trains. If you've never seen these before, they are amazing. I am very impressed that anyone can even manufacture anything this small, let alone have a working layout that has been running without fault for the past 3 days solid! They are minute masterpieces of engineering! http://www.tgauge.com I thought that some may be interested in having one on an O-Gauge layout as a miniature railway in a park or garden.
There were quite a few US themed layouts there this year, and I've attached a few photographs below. Not as many photographs as I would have liked, but many layouts had substantial crowds around them.
But first of all, a special treat to get Killian drooling.... A Gauge-1 Big-Boy. This is one massive locomotive!
Considering the sheer size of this monster, the price of €3.950 (Including VAT) seems quite reasonable.
There was quite a lot of Gauge-1 in action this year.
And some very large European HO layouts in the first hall.
as you can see, these are quite large halls, and Eurospoor takes up two of them.
More Gauge-1
A Dutch model of Chicago The trains were mostly at the other end, but I couldn't get a clear shot of those.
A nice model of Fulton Terminal in HO. This layout had travelled from the UK.
This was one of the trains giving rides to children. It was very popular and had a long queue waiting.
A Dutch 'Hudson' 
My 'deal of the century' acquisition for my garden railway.
As you can see, I had a very enjoyable day and made some good contacts for the future. I spent a lot of time talking with various vendors and manufacturers and I was especially happy to be able to find a couple of 1:43 scale US cars for my layout, and a local distributor for Miller engineering signs. So now my layout sports a Shell and a Heinz sign. Now I have found a supplier, I shall be placing an order for the others that I really want. I also managed to find a bag of 50 painted O-scale seated passengers for only €20 and I purchased a DB train driver uniformed teddy bear from the DB stand.
Perhaps not as much fun as I would have had at York, but a good day indeed.
And I did manage to see one bit of 3-Rail O. Running around the floor surrounding a beautiful HO scale city tram railway, was an oval of O-27 track with an MTH trolley car running on it. When the owner spotted my Lionel shirt (Not easy to miss!) we had an interesting discussion about 3-rail O.
