As some of you know we just got back from the National Garden Railway Conference in Las Vegas. I can’t believe how hot it was! On Friday it topped 112 degrees! Each day we started out at 7:30 on the bus and toured between five and six layouts each day. We arrived back at the hotel and attended several clinics and seminars.
I found the following topics of interest:
How to use drip irrigation.
Installing electrical in your garden railway.
Walt Disney’s Railroad Story
There was also a vendor show. I have about four hundred photos of all the railroads we visited. Most of them are for me to get ideas on what to do with my own railroad. I have uploaded only 6 of them as they are 2.5 megs each. (sorry I am not dial-up friendly).
I ended up buying a new Disney passenger car, some more rail clamp, two artificial sounds boxes and a pinner gun. I now have to find myself a compressor. But once I do, I will be hammering (no pun intended) out lots of trellises in no time.
The coolest part of the entire conference was the talk by Michael Broggie. He talked about the history of Walt Disney and his railroad. How his fascination with small scale trains turned into a very large dream that turned into Disneyland and Walt Disney World.