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September/October, 2006Edited by Jim FitzGerald and Lee Monaco-FitzGerald NTRAK Website: www.ntrak.org

N E W S L E T T E RTRAK Modular Railroading Society, Inc.

At the Philadelphia National Train Show, a NTRAK Mod-ule by Jamie Woods won 2nd place in the NMRA Modulecontest. The module is based on an area near Scranton,Pennsylvania. More photos of this module start on page 8.

Module and photo by Jamie Woods

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Next Issue Deadline: Oct. 1st

Special Sale!Our year end inventory showed that we still

have some of the beautiful 30th Anniversarycontainers. We are now offering them at $14.00per pair, including postage. See page 26.

2007 National Train ShowNTRAK Layout

The 2007 NMRA National Convention willbe held in Detroit, MI. If you are interested inhaving modules in the big NTRAK layout attheir National Train Show, please contactMark Cowles of the Lansing, MI LaNtrakclub. They are a small club and will appreciatehelp in gathering modules and coordinatingthe layout.

Mark Cowles <[email protected]>

Trip to the NMRA Train ShowWe have attended many shows and enjoy

different routes. This time we went a directroute from California to Philadelphia. Wewere pulling a 5’ x 8’ box trailer, because theT-TRAK display outgrew the van. The trailerdrops our gas mileage to about 15-16 mpg.Gasoline for the almost 6,000 mile round tripcost over $1,100.

At the convention, the decorators and elec-tricians were easy to work with and veryhelpful. We were able to assemble the displaywithout any interference. Dean Dickerhoof,of the Train Show Staff was very helpful.Before we could get onto the exhibit floor, oreven get in line, we had to get a pass from theNMRA office. That meant parking in a nearbylot. The lots were charging by the day, not bythe hour, so we wound up paying $20 for thevan and another $20 for the trailer for less thanan hour of parking. We later found a cheaperlot. We cover expenses like this personally.

Two weeks before the convention, one ofwhich was needed for driving, we found outthat we would have to pay extra to rent the fireretardant skirting for the 13 tables the T-TRAK modules sat on. There wasn’t time toorder certified material and make it into us-able cloth panels. We paid another $400 forthe rental. Someone asked if 13 people hadtables, would they have had to pay?

The display was well received and we talkedto a great many people about this new conceptin modeling. A surprising number of peopleremembered Lee for her NTRAK modules atlocal Greenberg Shows in the 80’s and 90’s.She always enjoyed talking to the public atthese shows.

The NTRAK layout was at the opposite end

of the building, so we didn’t get there veryoften. We stayed close to the large T-TRAKdisplay to answer questions and watch forsmall, and large, inquisitive hands.

A number of long time NTRAKers stoppedby to chat and at tear down time, Don MacInessfrom Canada and Rick and Linda Spano pitchedin and helped us dismantle and pack up thedisplay. Without their help, we would havehad to come back Monday to finish.

All and all, another interesting model rail-roading experience.

New FromMicro-Trains®

Two road numbers,SP 854290 & SP854254, are offered forthis Southern Pacificauto rack mounted onTrailer Train flat cars.Etched metal screensare used on this tri-level automobile rackcar. $37.80.

Black with white let-tering, this Frisco threebay open hopper is SL-SF 88470 & MT-10800 170, $15.35.

Golden West Ser-vice cars were darkblue with yellow let-tering and leased toshort line railroads.GVSR 327013 was a50’ gondola for theGalveston Railroad.$16.05

A dark green insu-lated 40’ box car forNP has white letter-ing, red. black andwhite logo plus a redand yellow compart-mentizer logo. MT#021 00 170 is $18.75.

Railway Expresscars were part of pas-senger trains. ThisPennsy 40’ “X29”class car #2145 haswhite lettering and isMT 120 00 260 &$12.65.

Also new from Micro-Trains® is a pair offlat cars that hold a 95 foot long steel beam thatis 8 feet high. It rests on pivoting mountings inthe center of each car. The two Kansas CitySouthern cars, the beam and two supportsmake up MT# 045 00 290, $24.95.

Jim’s note: To make this an operating model,the instructions call for gluing the supports inthe center of the cars as the first step. Thenholes are to be drilled in the supports and beamand pins (not furnished) installed.

I feel that only one pin should be used and

the beam left to slide freely in the secondsupport. As the cars go into a curve, thedistance between the supports will decrease. Itwould be very difficult to determine the loca-tion of the second pin so that there is enoughslack in the couplers in a straight line pull tonot have binding in a curve. Besides, it wouldbe better to have tension on the couplers at alltimes. Letting the beam slide in the secondsupport solves the problem.

I would use a sewing straight pin as thematerial for the pivot pin.

EMD Early Road Switchers

A new book in the Traintech series coversthe GP7 through GP20 road switchers thatGeneral Motors produced in the 1950’s and60’s. The author is Brian Solomon, who alsowrote the EMD F-Unit book reviewed here inthe Jan/Feb ‘06 issue. The new book is alsofilled with color photos of the various produc-tion changes and features of the early GPlocomotives.

There are very interesting technical detailssuch as the way the four radiator fans andshutters were phased in as coolant tempera-ture rose to various levels. There are alsoexplanations of the dynamic braking, drivemotor changes and even the adjustable cabmock up that railroad men visiting the LaGrange plant were invited to try and thenexpress their opinions.

There are comparisons with the similar typeof locomotive that Alco, Baldwin andFairbanks Morse produced before EMD in-troduced the GPs. In the end EMD out pro-duced all of the competition.

A strong point for the GPs was that manyparts were interchangeable with F unit parts,which most railroads already carried as sparesand crews were used to working with them.Also, when a major part was improved, carewas taken that the new was a direct replace-ment for the old part. Upgrading old equip-ment was often just a new part.

If you are modeling the transition era orwant to understand the rapid shift from steamto diesel, you will find the book hard to putdown and a great reference source.

The book is $24.95 and may be orderedfrom Specialty Press, 39966 Grand Ave, NorthBranch, MN 55056 Phone (651) 277-1400www.specialtypress.com

Aztec Frames for MRC DCC & Sound

Aztec is now offering exchange Atlas loco-motive frames machined to accept the MRC#0001636 DCC decoder and speaker. Yousend them your frame and $20 plus $5 USshipping and they return to you a machinedframe and full instructions for installing theMRC components.

The following locomotives are listed:TM 3100S Atlas GP38 + GP40 +

GP40-2TM 3101S Atlas SD35TM 3102S Atlas SD7 + SD9 + SD24

+ SD26TM 3103S Atlas B23-7 + B30-7 +

B36-7TM 3104S Atlas Dash 8-32 BW/

BWH + Dash 8-40B + Dash 8-40BWTM 3105S Kato non PnP SD40/45TM 3106 Atlas U25B

Aztec Mfg, 2701 Conestoga Dr, CarsonCity, NV 89706. Phone(775) 883-3327.

E-mail [email protected] www.aztectrains.comPhotos by Brad Myers

Installation Service AvailableThe installation charge for these is $40.00,

not including frame or decoder. Anyone in-terested can contact NTRAKer Brad Myersby phone at (650) 968-7353 or by E-mail [email protected]

Here is a view of the NTRAK layout at theDenver N Scale Collector Convention. Wewill have full coverage of the layout in thenext (Nov/Dec ‘06) issue of the NTRAK News-letter. The layout was coordinated by Dave

Porter of the Denver N Scale Club. Otherclubs taking part were: Austntrak, TexN Modu-lar Club, OKlahoma Ntrak, Tucson NTRAK,New Mexico Rail Runners and Prescott Val-ley NTRAK.

More Denver Layout Photos Next Time

Photo by Dave Porter

“Blending” Skyboards

As I write this I havea bunch of stuff I amtrying to get ready forthe National NarrowGauge Convention inDurango, Colorado,which I leave for in fivedays. I expect to have alot to share with youwhen I return, but, inthe meantime, wouldlike to share somethingwith you which has bothstandard and narrowgauge applications.

Our Nn3 modulargroup has about 20 one-foot-by-four-foot “onetrack” Nn3 modules,representing the desertsouthwest betweenCarson City, Nevada,and the end-of-the-linefor the S.P. NarrowGauge near Owenyo in California’s MojaveDesert. We have coordinated our scenery sothe modules tie together in a pretty cohesivescene. We use air-brush-enhanced Walther’sInstant Horizons printed desert hills scenescut to the hill profile and cemented to 1/8”tempered hardboard skyboards paintedGlidden “California Sky” that extend 12”above the nominal benchwork height. How-ever, I have always been bothered by theobvious joints between the skyboards. I cameup with the following easy-to-implement so-lution.

I glue 1” wide strips of thin plastic to the leftend of the “scene-side” of the skyboard so itextends beyond the edge. This overlaps thejoint. I use tough, thin translucent plastic fromlegal-size file folders, available at stationarysupply stores, cut into 1” wide strips. Don’tuse regular report covers, as this is too flimsy.I lightly sand the surface to provide some“tooth” for the sky color paint, and feather inthe edge using fine Synkloid spackle. (SeePhoto 1.)

When painted the same color as the basicsky, these splines are practically invisible, asseen in Photo 2. (The discontinuous mountaingives away the location of the joint!)

I also use 2” long sections of the plasticspine used for reports (remember those inschool?) to align the top edges of the hard-board skyboards. This is the only visibleindication of where the joint is in the skyboardin Photo 3. Care must be taken when trans-porting these skyboards, and installing them

Photo 3 The seam is in the center of the photo.

Photo 1 Plastic overlap edge.

on the modules. (It is best if the skyboards areinstalled in a sequence from right-to-left asviewed from the front.)

More Nn3 stuff when I return from Durango!Tom

Photo 2 Overlap edge.

Dayton, OH November 4-5Again this year the Dayton-N-TRACK will

be in charge of setting a large “N” scale layoutat the NMRA Division 3 at Hara Arena inDayton Ohio on November 4th and 5th.

We are hoping to have a larger layout thanlast year. Last year’s layout was 60 ft by 68 ft.with about 350 ft of track on the red line with85 modules. The goal for this year is 125modules. We have several committed cluband individuals for this layout.

If you are interested in joining us for thisevent, just contact me at [email protected] formore information. I need to know the type ofmodule, length, Power Poles or c-jones,corners(inside or outside) etc. Theme of yourmodule would help. Your preference, on DCCor Analog, for running trains will help insetting up the layout.

All arrangements for the event are not com-plete but if you are interested in this show, wewill forward information to you. We need tohave a response by the 15th of September sowe can get all the plans finished and everyonenotified of the final layout.

Dick Strous , Layout CoordinatorDayton-N-TRAK

June 25-29 2008, Louisville, KY 2008 National N Scale Convention. Pre-

sented by the Kentuckiana Society of N Scal-ers (KSONS) and the N Scale Collector Soci-ety, in association with the 2008 National NScale Partnership and World's Greatest Hobbyon Tour. 146,000 sf of Class A conventionspace. Four star hotel. Tours, clinics, con-tests, and the largest NTRAK layout ever -50,000 sq. ft! Registration opens in Fall 2007.Contact Paul Downs at (502)895-6578 [email protected] General informationat http://www.2008-National-N-Scale-Convention.com/

Nov 30-Dec 3, Oklahoma City, OKSouthern Plains Regional Meet. Prototype

tour & clinics,Thurs. Layout setup Fri. &Supper party at layout. Banquet Sat evening.Train Show Sat & Sun. Bruce Alcock,[email protected]

Future N Conventions2007 Hartford, CT (Collector)2008 Louisville, KY (Joint) July 25-292009 Edison, NJ ??2010 Richmond VA ??2011 ???

Future NMRA Conventions2007 Detroit, MI, July 22-282008 Anaheim, CA, July 13-192009 Hartford, CT July 5-112010 Milwaukee, WI, 75th Anniv, July 10-182011 Sacramento, CA July 3-9

Jamie Woods’ module, based on an areanear Scranton, Pennsylvania, won 2nd placein the NMRA Module contest at the Philadel-phia convention. His family has lived in thearea for several generations and had a bookwith photos of buildings and train depot in thevillage of Falls. Jamie, a member of the DARNNTRAK club, decided to model the area as itwas around 1900. More research turned up

more photos and drawings of the area andsome foundations were still there. All keybuildings were scratch built to match the origi-nals. The club standard Mountain Divisiontrack was added and the 3rd track for theNTRAK standard was worked in. Otherwise itis a very close model of the original, with agreat amount of detail and excellent scenerywork.

Module and photos by Jamie Woods

Falls, Pennsylvania

Photo by Ron Powell

Module and photos by Jamie Woods

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This model of a 1930;s cable braced radio tower was built by Carl Hazelet

The NTRAK Layout was coordinated byTerry Smith of the DARN (Delaware valleyArea Railroaders in N) NTRAK club. BobUtley of the South Jersey NTRAK Club de-signed the layout. Their two clubs furnishedmuch of the layout, along with the NorthernVa. NTRAK club, Richmond, Va.(RANTRAK) and a number of individualmodule owners.

NMRA Train Show at Philadelphia

The setup went smoothly with good coop-eration of the convention center employeesand contractors. The rules were known aheadof time and turned out to be easy to follow. NoFire Code problems surfaced, as far as I candetermine.

Starting on page 16 are some random photosof the Philadelphia layout. On pages 8 & 9 aresome photos of a new module that took 2ndplace in the NMRA Module Contest.

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Ken Melchiorre, also of the DARN club,had a new corner module in the layout. Itfeatures a port city, ship model, light house

Dave Savage of the DARN club built thisend loop module that features a transition tothe Mountain Division track. The club layouts

are often loop to loop with the Mountain trackas the fourth track..The loop folds for easierstorage and transport.

and well done structures. Ken always addsinteresting touches to his modeling.

This corner module featured a white fence along the drive-way thst climbed trhe hill to a well done home compound.Owner not known to me.

Gil Brauch calls his module “Hickory Crossing”and it reflects his Carolina retirement area.

More Photos of the Philadelphia NMRA Convention Layout

I failed to get names for these twoattractive modules in the big layout.

More NTRAK Photos start on page 22.

THE FIRST T-TRAKCOMMEMORATIVE

CAR in N Scale.

Please see Page 17

Introducing the new “SixJunction Layout” by Lee.A plan for many options

and layouts.More information in

subsequent issues.

A NEW T-TRAK-Zlayout, in progress,

by LeeTHE CATHEDRAL

The “Six Junction Layout” show-ing a portion of one of the six tableextensions, from the center layoutmodules. This displayed the T-TRAK “Alternate” track spacing andthe 61 coal cars are seen making aloop and then weaving their wayaround the complete layout.

(Below) OutstandingT-TRAK Module repre-senting a scene, (photo),in Tokyo, Japan and cutenovelty trolley by MasuoIshihara.

Meet “Mr. T-TRAK O’Smiley”----(Actually two O scale demo modules.)

MORE LATER!!!

The Log Run & Mills

The Miniature Train M

useum

The American Steel Complex

Demo Layout #1

The “Six Junction Layout”usedas a Display and Teaching method,at this show for assorted T-TRAKScales. People were able to see andcompare the varied scale con-structed modules and train sizes,besides sceniced layouts, that werealso shown.

At left aretwo new T-TRAK-N fourfoot modulesby Lee.

New N Scale Modelingby Lee

www.T-TRAK.orge-mail: [email protected]

Photos and Text by Leeexcept as noted.

Very Special Announcement! Very Special Run! Very Limited Quantities!

“THE FIRST T-TRAK COMMEMORATIVE CAR” A Cupola Caboose, N Scale

by Kato, using their American Style, cupola steel caboose shell.A short caboose with center Cupola.

$40.00 per car including shipping & handling.See Page 13 for photo.

Send check or money order-no credit card orders to:

NTRAK, Inc. for the Special T-TRAK Car.1150 Wine Country Place, Templeton, Ca. 93465

All profits from this Special Run, sponsored by Lee, will go to support the T-TRAK Youth Program, which encourages young people to learn the fine pointsof building a small wood module according to NTRAK Standards and learn about and

enjoy other facets of model railroading from train club members.

T-TRAK Youth Program

Established for club volunteers to teach and help youngsters learn, supplying the lumber andpreparing the modules for them, according to age. This gives hands on experience, in buildingand passing on the fine traditions of NTRAK modules and Model Railroading. Besides N scalemodeling, other scales are based on these theories, also. T-TRAK Certificates and Patches areawarded. Scouts can earn merit badges, for woodworking skills learned, as well.

-----------------------------Sales of T-TRAK Kits, Patches and Pins support the T-TRAK Youth Program.

The Childrens Museum of Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Volunteers from the Knoxville Area Model RRers

A Second Successful Year of Presenting T-TRAK.

Photos furnished by Larry Burkholder

New N Scale Modelingby Lee

www.T-TRAK.orge-mail: [email protected]

Aaron Morgan Aditya Chourey Austin Morgan

Bobby Krieger

Peyton GuptonKatherine Zhang

Cole Evered Jake Goodlaxson

Rick Carl

Photos furnished by Larry Burkholder

Dave SavageCity with Hi-rise

scene.

Home layouts

Rick SpanoSteel and Coal

Photos by Lee

Mike RabbittHO Home layoutSteel Operations

Steve JacksonT-TRAK modulesPhilly Conv ‘06

Photos by Lee

For the big NTRAK layout at the Philadel-phia NMRA National Train Show, theoNeTRAK Division of the Northern VirginiaNTRAK Club introduced a coordinated sec-tion of the layout. All modules had C&Otracks going through the mountains of Vir-ginia. Scenery style and materials match andthe same style of fascia and paint color wasused. All scenes are accurate models of a 30mile section on the C&O's Mountain Subdivi-sion from Gordornsville and Charlottesville

New oNeTRAK Modules by Northern Virginia NTRAK

Jeff Peck modeled the point where the tracks cross theRoute 250 highway in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The town of Crozet, Virginia is the focus of the modulebuilt by Brian Brendel, current president of NVNTRAK.

up over the Blue Ridge Mountains toWaynesboro, VA. The modules are located inthe correct east to west order like the proto-type.

Passing sidings allow two direction trafficon the layout and prototype operations. Thisconcept is an extension of the originaloNeTRAK module idea, With the use of junc-tion modules, Red Line Route trains have theoption of traveling through the C&O Moun-tain Subdivision.

Three views of the Afton, Virginia depot moduleset built by Bernard Kempinski. The C&O

Passenger train belongs to Matt Schaefer, whoworked for the C&O during his college years.

Model Power's New Mogulby Craig Barrow

Some people have already had problemswith the new Model Power Mogul--crossheadguides not fitting into motion hangers, miss-ing screws, and stalling of the engine; how-ever, I am generally pleased with the SPMogul that I had ordered long ago fromTrainworld. Instead of the small tender onthe 4-4-0, my engine has the Vanderbilt oiltender with Andrews trucks appropriate forthe Southern Pacific. In talking to Adam Tagerof Model Power, I found that the SP Mogul isthe only one with the Vanderbilt tender. All ofthe other engines have the tender on the 4-4-0with either coal or oil fuel loads. On my enginethe headlight is in the center of the smoke box;the cab windows are square; the engine hasvalve cylinders, and the pilot is the freightfootboard type that we have seen on the 4-4-0.I list these details because just as with the 4-4-0, the cab windows, pilot, cylinders, tenderfuel, and tender trucks can vary from road toroad on Model Power's Mogul. The driver sizeis the same as on the Mikado. While myengine is by no means a ringer of an SP Mogul,it certainly has the general appearance of theengines that worked around Los Angeles inthe transition period and are nicely commemo-rated on a Pentrex tape, Rail fanning SouthernCalifornia in the 1950s. Other Model PowerMoguls have a very different appearance be-cause of the changes to these details as thosewho have looked at Model Power's web sitecan attest.

Unlike previous Model Power steamers,this one comes with traction tires on the reardrivers, and the lead truck picks up power. Thetender truck current pickups, however, are thesame ones that people have been complainingabout on previous Model Power steam en-gines. From what Mr. Tager said, on later runsof the engines the tender pickups will be likeKato's or Bachmann Spectrum's.

The placement of the contacts for the driversshould cause fewer problems however fromthose that plagued early versions of the Pa-cific. The front coupler, which appears to bethe same as the one on the 4-4-0, mates wellwith MT couplers. Since the coupler screwsinto the pilot, conversion to MT couplersshould be easy if one uses a coupler where themounting screw is to the rear of the coupler, asin MT 2004 or MT1027 body mounts. This

conversion is particularly easy with enginesthat have the footboard pilot, since there ismore room to operate even if the distance tothe pilot truck is the same as on the passengerpilot. On the Vanderbilt tender, MT1015 cou-plers are appropriate.

The only minor problem I had when I re-ceived my engine was the tender coupler felloff when I took the engine out of the box.Since I was going to replace the coupler any-way, I did not care. My engine seems to runbetter in reverse than forward, although theperformance running forward has improvedas the engine has run on my layout. In testingwhat the engine could pull I put twelve Katopassenger cars with lighting kits installed be-hind the locomotive, and it walked away withthe cars even though my layout has manycurves and grades. Stalling oddly has notoccurred as much when pulling cars, probablybecause the load seems to improve electricalcontact as the drivers and tender wheels seemmore pressed to the rails. The slow speedperformance seems particularly good with theengine.

Now we have three different Moguls in NScale from which to choose. Each one is froma different era, with the Micro Ace/Atlas Mogulbeing the earliest, the MDC Mogul next, andthe Model Power Mogul having the mostmodern appearance. Because the Atlas/MicroAce Mogul and the MDC Mogul have bettertender pickup, they run more reliably; how-ever, the Model Power Mogul is a good enginewith more pulling power than either the MicroAce/Atlas Mogul or the MDC engine. Despitethe typical teething problems that have plaguedModel Power engines in the past, I think manypeople will like this engine.

The Model Power Mogul is being offered inpainted undecorated, Boston & Maine, B & O,CB & Q, GN, NP, M & St. Louis, NYC, PRR,SP, Southern, Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific,Canadian National, and Long Island Railroad.The retail price is $145 for all engines exceptmy SP locomotive, which is ten dollars higher.

This is the Burlington Route version of theModel Power 2-6-0 Mogul. A photo of the

Southern Pacific version was not available.

Note: We try to include any information about NTRAK or Nscale layouts that will be at the events listed. If you send in anotice, please include that information. If space is tight,notices that don't mention N scale will not be published. Jim.

Sep 16, OK City, OKM RR Meet, Rose State College Student Center, 6420

S. E. 15th Street, Midwest City. Dealers, operating layouts.9-4 Sat, $3 each, $6 family. Info, Dean Gillmore, (405)799-2827, [email protected]

Sep. 23-24, Danville, VADanville Old 97 Rail Days, 645 River Park Drive. 10-5

both days Several clubs with NTRAK layout. Other eventsinclude tours of the 1897 wreck site. 2 day trip pass $10/adult $7/child, Julie Allen, 434-793-4636 www.dsc.smv.org

Sep 23-24, Kansas CityGreater Kansas City Model RR Expo, Union Station, Sat

9:20-5 Sun 10-5. Charlie Post [email protected]

Oct 14-15, Fircrest near Tacoma, WAN-Trekk 19, Firecrest Rec Ctr, 555 Contra Costa, Sat 10-

5, Sun 10-4, Walt Huston, [email protected]

Oct 14-15, Kirkwood, MO16th annual Greater St. Louis Metro Area Train Show,

Information on future NTRAK layouts,meets or conventions is being gathered byAdvisory Group member Dave Porter:<[email protected]>

8695 N. Silo RoadParker, Co 80138303-841-7365

Please submit your information to Dave.If you would like to join in with a module in

a layout, please contact the layout coordinatorlisted for that event well ahead of time. Theremost likely will not be room, if you just showup the morning of a show, unannounced.

Auditorium – 99 Fordham Ave, Wilmington, MA

11/25-26/2006 – Collinsville, IL – Gateway Cen-ter – 1 Gateway Center Dr, Collinsville, IL

11/25-26/2006 – Edison, NJ – New Jersey ExpoCenter – 97 Sunfield Ave, Edison, NJ

11/25-26/2006 – Pleasanton, CA – AlamedaCountry Fairgrounds – Pleasanton, CA

12/02-03/2006 – Virginia Beach, VA – VirginiaBeach Convention Center – Virginia Beach, VA

12/02-03/2006 – San Diego, CA – Del Mar Fair-grounds – Del Mar, CA

12/09-10/2006 – Fort Washington REPLACE-MENT – Show location to be announced in Novem-ber

12/09-10/2006 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa ConventionCenter – 100 Civic Center, Tulsa, OK

12/16-17/2006 – Richmond, VA – RichmondRaceway Complex – 600 East Laburnum Avenue,Richmond, VA

12/30-31/2006 – Chantilly, VA – Dulles ExpoCenter – 4368 Chantilly Center, Chantilly, VA

12/30-31/2006 – Tampa, FL – Florida State Fair-grounds – Gate 2, Martin Luther King Blvd, Tampa,FL

2006 Fall Show Schedule:9/23-24/2006 – San Jose, CA – Santa Clara

County Fairgrounds – 344 Tully Road, San Jose,CA

10/14-15/2006 – Indianapolis, IN – Indiana StateFairgrounds – 1202 East 38th Street, Indianapolis,IN

10/21-22/2006 – Winston-Salem, NC – DixieClassic Fairgrounds – 2825 University Parkway,Winston-Salem, NC

11/04-05/2006 – Norcross, GA – North AtlantaTrade Center – 1700 Jeurgens Court, Norcross, GA

11/11-12/2006 – Denver, CO – National WesternComplex – 4655 Humboldt St, Denver, CO

11/11-12/2006 – Monroeville, PA – PittsburghExpoMart – 105 Mall Blvd, Monroeville, PA

11/18-19/2006 – Puyallup, WA – Western Wash-ington Fairgrounds – 9th and Meridian,Puyallup,WA

11/18-19/2006 – Rock Island, IL – QCCA ExpoCenter – 2621 4th Ave, Rock Island, IL

11/18-19/2006 – Wilmington, MA – Shriner’s

Great Train Expo

Kirkwood Community Center, 111 South Geyer Rd. Adults$4.00 - Children under 12 Free. All scales show, layouts,door prizes, free parking. David Johnson at 636-225-2405,MVNS website http://mvns.railfan.net.

Nov 11-12, Roseville, CAInternational Railfair, Placer County Fairgrounds, 10-5

Sat, 10-4 Sun, Layouts, dealers, Sta 10-5, Sun 10-4 $6,under 12 free, Sun Family Special $10. Bob Warner (916)772-7502, [email protected],

www.internationalrailfair.com

Nov 11-12, West Allis, WITrainfest, Wisc Expo Ctr at State Fair Park. 9-5:30 Sat,

9:30-5 Sun, layouts, manufacturers. dealers, NTRAK.www.trainfest.com or www.mantrak.com.

Nov 24-26, Huntington, WVa49th Appalachian M RR Society Show, Vet Mem Field

House, 5th Av @ 26th St East. Operational layouts, dealers,Fri 5-9, Sat 10-8, Sun 12-4:30. $5, under 12 $1. Paul Fulks(304) 429-3885 [email protected]

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