This is the second installment in my posts about attending the recent N Scale convention in Reno, Nevada.
Peninsula Ntrak was assigned a 26 ft x 38 ft space for our layout and we ended up using 26 ft x 32 ft. 7 Members of our group brought their modules to the convention plus we used our large club staging yard and 5 of the club's outside corners modules. We also had several of our members there without modules and they provided extra help with setup, running, and tear down of the layout.
A couple months before the convention, one of our members who is really good with scenery took one of our 30 plus years old corner modules with it's original scenery home for a re-do. Just before the convention she brought it over to my train room where we completed a few finishing touches. A total of 6 different members contributed to this project. Shown here are Julia Jackson and Paul Ingraham.
We displayed this refinished corner module for the first time in our layout at this convention. This photo provided by Mark St Clair.
The layout was setup and running by Thursday afternoon and ran through Saturday afternoon. Peninsula Ntrak has the flexibility to run DC or DCC on any of the 3 basic Ntrak lines. We ran this layout using DCC on the red and blue line and DC throttles on the yellow line. I ran DCC with one train on Friday and another on Saturday. This was my Saturday train passing through the staging yard on the red line. It was one of many different trains run by club members and guest operators. Photo by Mark St Clair.
On Saturday the show was open to the public from 9:00am to 3:30pm and drew a good crowd. It was a bit of a rush to get everything taken down and packed up by 6:30pm for the convention banquet but we did it.
Next post I'll show something of some of the other layouts that were set up at the convention.
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