When I arrived at the Big-E Friday evening the layout was already up and running. Usually it takes the full two days to get everything running, but this year trains were already going around on Thursday night. A new record! On Friday the guys were finishing the details, and doing last minute programing of the DCC system. I'll write more about DCC later.
This is the only time of year this layout is fully set up so I spent an hour taking photos of it without the public around.
I love this years car crash with overturned VW.
No I didn't do any work on the layout. That credit goes to the other members of the club who put untold hours of their time, and money into it. I simply help out during the show weekend.
Is that coal headed to Mt Tom power plant?
Much of the layout is still not finished. This type of work takes years to complete, but that's the fun part, and other model RR's appreciate seeing how its done.
Yes, Of coarse they use them all. Do you think some guy would buy all of those just so he could say he has the most?
How big is the layout?
It's almost 200 feet around.
72 feet long by 18 feet wide.
In scale it would be 3.5 miles to drive around, And it's not the biggest layout at the show.
If you have nothing better to do this weekend come visit The Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show at the Big-E.
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5 comments:
Great pictures. It almost looks like that tilt-shift photography...
Wow those are going to be some intensely huge set ups! Cant wait to see more..
I go to the railway meetings in Amherst on occasion. However I can't make the show =( . unless I can sneak there tomorrow.
Do you have any more pics? There was soooo many people in that building sat. I didnt get to see the whole layout.
OMG, do I have pics coming! The only thing slowing me down is migrating to a new computer, and I really need to get it done right away to speed up video editing. My old PC is just too slow for large video.
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