A weekend at the train show.

As I mentioned in the previous post, Angie and I went up to Ontario to the The Big Train Show. This was a two day event. We drove up to the hotel on friday and unpacked the bridge. We went over to the show on saturday morning and took a clinic on split jaw products. We learned about their new product line.

After the clinic we went back to the hotel (across the street) and ate breakfast. Yes the class was at 7:30 in the morning. After breakfast we loaded the bridge back up in the truck and took it across the street. We unloaded it and entered it into the scratch built contest.

After dropping off the bridge we drove back to the hotel and parked the truck and walked back to the show. The vendor show was just opening and we walked around the show. You can see some of the exhibit pictures in our gallery.

We bought a number of miniature people and animals for our garden railway. As we walked around the show, we noticed some new vendors and some of the old regular ones. We ended up purchasing a lot of items this year. The list of items are here:

Wireless railcam: www.railcam.net
Rail Clamps and reversing unit: http://www.railclamp.com
Airbrush: http://web2.airmail.net/toolman/

We also purchased some shirts and other small items. On Sunday we went to the Pomona Faiplex to visit their outdoor railroad. The pictures are in the gallery. When we got back to the show, we attended the airbrush weathering clinic. We watched the instructor take a beautiful new engine and make it look like it had been in the outdoors for 20 years. It was quite interesting to watch the transformation.

After the clinic we walked back around the show to buy all the items I put on my list from the day before. I am glad I waited because I got the railcam for $70 less because it was his last one and would not have to ship it out.

We picked up the Bridge from the scratch built contest. The bridge took 2nd place, not to shabby when you compare what it ran against.

We loaded the bridge back up on the truck and headed home. No damage was incurred at all on the bridge.

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