Tuesday, September 18, 2018

2018 National Narrow Gauge Convention

This year the National Narrow Gauge Convention was held in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. It was held at the DoubleTree Hotel and all events were under one roof.

The schedule was similar to past years in which clinics and sales of model railroad goodies take place in the morning and evening and the afternoons are free to explore home layouts.

Events start at 8 AM and continue thru 10:30 PM so the days are fully packed.

I'll make this post a summary of sorts and showcase the highlights. Later posts will give details of the contest room, modules and home layout tours.

I especially liked this layout. It is hard to tell where the layout stops and the photo backdrop begins


This was a contest entry and duplicates the real railroad in miniature

Some of the bridge models were well detailed

Large scale models on one foot square bases in the contest room


Ticket office and dispatchers office as a part of the layout




Model of the real railroad

European prototype


Carribean banana hauler

Folks waiting to board the train on the Soggy Bottom modules


Working a switching layout


Compact large scale layout in its own shipping container


On2 switching layout from England





Famous location on the RGS railroad in Colorado - the Ophir Loop

Layout runs at night with LED lights everywhere

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