Worlds Greatest Hobby Show In Phoenix,Az Feb 4-5-2017

Looks like it is a good show.  Here is a shot by Chris Allen with the Desert Division's traveling layout from the show yesterday.  We are off to Phoenix this morning to do it this afternoon.

Believe it or not, but I really enjoyed the Lego trains that were running in the far corner, but Lego kits are not cheap.

I saw the NS Honor Our Veterans diesel/caboose running in the MTH booth. It looks so much nicer in person than in the catalog and I'm definitely going to buy one now that I've seen it. They also had several of the animated cars, like the military car with all the service insignias revolving inside a boxcar. The Ross booth had a lot of switches laid out and they do look nice and solid, you could definitely see the workmanship was there. There were a lot of activities for kids, including pedal cars on tracks and kids were awestruck watching the trains go around in circles, so the spark is still there. And the modular folks had some really large HO/N layouts running with some nice scenery and several booths had all scales, from N to G, running on ovals inside each other. I wasn't there to buy, so I don't know if there were deals to be had or not, but there was a lot of equipment for sale, again mostly HO and N.

Took the family Saturday afternoon.  Took the light rail all the way in from Mesa.  There were a couple things I wanted to buy, but passed on as I need to really save my money to buy more track to get the layout along.  What's the point in buying more rolling stock if I have no place to put it?

I was not able to attend having contracted a vicious cold/virus but my daughter took her kids and they had a great time.  My 5 year old grandson's only disappointment was there were too many people there for him to monopolize everything in site.  They looked at layouts, rode on Thomas and built layouts with wooden trains. Even the 15month old got into the action.  A great time!

Rolland