The Canadian Toy Train association set the club layout up at the local CN Railway Family days event recently. Here are lots of photos of the club layout and the real trains at the event. Lots of members turned up and there was a large turnout of families the kids loving the opportunity to run trains.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sda...gSmWIk6VmjuVCHa?dl=0
And link to the club website, lots of photos and links to the club newsletter.
http://www.canadiantoytrains.org/
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Looks like a lot of fun!
Wish you were closer....our border crossing is 70 miles due east...at Sarnia, ON. Rolling through there on our way to York in a bit more than a month from now.
This was actually on the west coast. Great event they even had 2 Rocky Mountaineer engines and a couple of passenger cars and took guests on a short ride through the rail yards, also a fire truck, police car, truck and real locomotive engine you could climb in, the families enjoyed this. The 2 O layouts and a G scale live steam layout. Lots of games for the kids, food, door prizes etc.
One casualty of the show was that someone bumped the LionChief Thomas off and he hit the floor and broke!
Do you have a protective barrier around the edge of your club layout to prevent accidents on an elevated club layout? And kids from sticking fingers in running trains!
This was actually on the west coast. Great event they even had 2 Rocky Mountaineer engines and a couple of passenger cars and took guests on a short ride through the rail yards, also a fire truck, police car, truck and real locomotive engine you could climb in, the families enjoyed this. The 2 O layouts and a G scale live steam layout. Lots of games for the kids, food, door prizes etc.
One casualty of the show was that someone bumped the LionChief Thomas off and he hit the floor and broke!
Do you have a protective barrier around the edge of your club layout to prevent accidents on an elevated club layout? And kids from sticking fingers in running trains!
Have a 6" clear plexi glass shield which sticks up about 3.5" after drop in mounting. Kids are actually pretty good about not touching stuff
Sadly it is old guys who walk up and then pick things up without asking.
Unfortunately, It was an adult who knocked it off. We did have 2 kids touching the trains w/mom right there. after the 3rd warning, I had to speak to her. she still didn't care. They are not in the pictures
Was visiting a layout on a chilly where the owner has a strict policy to avoid some inadvertent knocking of things off their layout, "Positively NO JACKETS and NO LOOSE FITTING SWEATERS" and it is strictly enforced. Has a coat rack at the top of the stairs.
Well done Photo Album.
Gary - Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway
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