SGMA a success at Trainfest!

Congratulations, SGMA, on your well-deserved award! I was at Trainfest for a couple hours yesterday, and, for me, your layout was one of the highlights of the show. I especially enjoyed your trainsheds, and your classic airplane display. I'll have to see if any of my photos came out, and if so, I'll post some later today. Photography and I weren't getting along yesterday.

Bravo!... to my SGMA cohorts...can't wait to see the photos and videos.

same here.

Congrats! Well done.

Congratulations! It was a great display, Dad and I really enjoyed talking with you and the Lindvig brothers. Hope to see it back next year.

Congrats to the SGMA!  I also received an e-mail announcement from the Trainfest folks this evening noting that the event this year broke all prior attendance records.  Interest in trains is alive and well in the Milwaukee area!

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing some video to see what you guys ran.

Yes, congratulations!
Great to see the SGMA has successfully expanded West.

Bert

Here are some Kirk sent me Saturday.

Sorry about the multiple posts, I'm having an easier time posting photos one at a time.

 

 

 

Thanks,
John. 

Great photos, John; thanks for posting them! Can you identify the people in the last photo? Again, congratulations to SGMA and all of you! The layout is terrific!

Make as many posts as you care to.  It's great to see those big and colorful toy trains strutting their stuff on such an extensive layout.

Thanks for sharing John. I'm clicking on and enjoying each one. Kept em coming!

Looks great guys, heck of a layout!

Hi Guys at SGMA, Thanks for the purchase of those Custom and colorful 4 foot Extended Arch Bridges used as duck unders. Here is the Orange one made for Bob Nelson shown at Trainfest.

 

tks.

jim r from www.bridgeboss.com

 

 

In response to the earlier post requesting names in the above photo (you can also see the names if you click on the attachment), here they are:

 

From left to right: Official from Trainfest, Me (John Clifford) holding my son Ryan, Bob Nelson (aka Navy Seal), Chuck Lindvig, Kirk Lindvig, Paul, Howard, Wayne Judkins.

 

John.

TimDude: SGMA Airplanes:

 

Congratulations

At what shows do you exhibit?

 

Certainly worth a trip to visit.

A couple more: (By the way, who made the trainshed? It was gigantic!)

 

Once again guys, really awesome.

Hello;  Just wanted to say that is one nice layout.  I was wondering what you put on the layout base.  It really brings out the tinplate colours. Is that green indoor/outdoor carpet and what did you use for the track bed.  thanks, wayne(walter)

Wayne, yes it is green indoor/outdoor carpet. The track bed or simulated ballast is the same carpet, just in grey and cut into 4" strips. John.

jayjay, the canopies (train sheds) are made by ACE trains of London. Each one is about 2 feet long, Bob has 5 of them on the layout I believe. John.

Thanks for the info, John. I figured they were either Ace or perhaps Darstaed. They really add to the layout.

 

By the way, I enjoyed your "glitter buildings", also! 

The display was fantastic, and I congratulate all involved.  Sorry, some of my photographs are fuzzy.  The last view is the new No. 7 steam locomotive operating on the MTH display layout.

Here's a quick video shot by my 9 year old daughter.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be

 

 

John.