I went to the Great Train Expo show on Sat. $7 admission. I was there from 10:45 to 1:15. There was pretty good crowd. For me the best parts were the layouts. There were suitcase layouts, which I had never seen or heard of. My favorite was The Queen City Hi Railers club O scale modular layout and several friendly guys I talked to. It was a very large layout, all Gargraves and RCS switches. Somehow I spent more time looking at this layout and dint take a single photo. But the biggest layout was a modular N scale layout in the rear most area of the exhibit. As for the vendors, well, with few exceptions it was a bunch of dirty old stuff. One guy had Lionel cars priced with orange stickers, underneath which you could a cheaper price written on white stickers. They must think the shows are for suckers?
Would I go back. Yes, it was worth $7 and then some.
I bought two books. "Realistic Model Railroad Operation" by Tony Koester @$17.50. I've been studying this book ever since, slowly. I also bought "Scratchbuilding for Model Railroaders" by Bob Walker @$18 which I have not looked at yet.
I wanted the John Armstrong operation book, but could not find it. I Amazon'd it today.
