Model A Car Show in 1/87th Scale

Sometimes when you build a Model Railroad you end up building to a specific time period. In the case of the local model railroad club the time period was the Steam to Diesel transition period of the late 1940's to the mid 1950's (or so).

This means that all the items on the layout are intended to represent that time period or before. This is especially true of items most people are familiar with such as automobiles.

As is often the case, time marches on and the time period of a layout changes with the addition of new members, new model trains and new methods of transporting goods. At some point it just looks 'Wrong" to have modern diesel engines pulling container trains driving past roads that are populated with cars from the 1920's thru the 1950's.

It is easy enough to add newer model vehicles to the layout to correct the time period, but what do you do with the older cars that are way out of date for daily drivers for our 1/87th scale citizens? Why you put them in the hands of collectors and they sponsor car shows all over the layout...

The Model A club is an active group and meet in the parking lot of the Augusta railroad station

Not everyone is at the car shows - some are celebrating a wedding!