2016 National Narrow Gauge Convention

[Raymo]

Those Museum Photos are really Cool! Was that track standard size or narrow gauge?

Alan

PS It that Dan in the 2nd picture driving you guys to lunch?

Track is 2 ft narrow gauge.

Dan was everywhere.

Jaime

Yup... And Dan is now home. Dan is tired.Dan is going to bed. Dan will post some photos to this thread tomorrow. 

[NEMMRRC]

The Winners


B&W Model Photographs
3rd Place - Peter Barney
2nd Place - Dan Wolschon
1st Place - Chuck Lind


B&W Prototype Photographs
3rd Place - Raymond Walter
2nd Place - Jeff Boock
1st Place - Matthew Malkiewicz


Color Model Photographs
3rd Place - William Hobbs
2nd Place - Barry Dupler
1st Place - Dale Kreutzer


Color Prototype Photographs
3rd Place - Jeff Boock
2nd Place - Ted Wiese
1st Place - Jeff Schumaker


Rod Locomotives
3rd Place - David Woodhead
2nd Place - Allan Houghton
1st Place - Ross Ames


Geared Locomotive
3rd Place - Tom Bowdler
2nd Place Peter Watson
1st Place - Gerald Styles


Internal Combustion Motive Power
3rd Place - Phillip Raynes
2nd Place - Jim Burchell
1st Place - Allen Littlefield


Caboose
3rd Place - Peter Dawson
2nd Place - Bob Bennett
1st Place - Thomas Nugent


Freight Car
3rd Place - Eric Green
2nd Place - Rob Teates
1st Place - Dan Stenger


Passenger Car
3rd Place - Bob Bennett
2nd Place - Pete Watson
1st Place - Grant Knowles


Logging Rail Equipment
3rd Place - Sam Swanson
2nd Place - Peter Hoehn
1st Place - Jerry Bohlander


Special Equipment
3rd Place - Daniel McClary
2nd Place - Richard Holman
1st Place - Jeff Young


Maintenance of Way
3rd Place - Sandy Alonzo
2nd Place - Ed Fillion
1st Place - Michael Tierney


Favorite Train
3rd Place - Tim Fillion
2nd Place - Allen Littlefield
1st Place - Allan Houghton


Structure
3rd Place - Roland Picard
2nd Place - Sam Swanson
1st Place - Don Railton


Diorama
3rd Place - David Zolnierek
2nd Place - Terry Stapleton
1st Place - Leslie Davis


Modular
3rd Place - Maple Leaf Mafia
2nd Place - Narrow Minded Guys from Maine
1st Place - Soggy Bottom Boys


Square Footer
3rd Place - Mark Warner
2nd Place - Jim Burchell
1st Place - Mike Engler


Animation
Allan Houghton


Best of Show
Leslie Davis


Photos of the models later.


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.


The 2016 National Narrow Gauge Convention is over. It didn't end without some drama. Everyone loves drama.


I'll be posting more photos as time permits. There were a ton of models in the contest room and there were some 12 or 14 modular layouts on display. It was an extravaganza of model railroad goodness.


Meanwhile, visit my National Narrow Gauge Convenfion website for coverage of past conventions :
http://www.narrowperspective.com


Later.


Jaime

[Raymo]

Some random photos from the convention. On Tuesday afternoon, I stopped by Dave Kotonis's layout. The buildings on this pier started out as a Sheepscot Red Herring Packing. The fuel and ice building was scratch built

[Raymo]

Random photos from the modular layouts

[Raymo]

This n3 layout was impressive. Very well detailed.

[Raymo]

Photo from one of the O-gauge layouts.

[Raymo]

Sorry for the blurriness to the photos, they were taken with my phone. O scale kit from Stoney Creek

[Raymo]

Photo of Jimmy asking King Frary if any of his BBQ friends would be interested in the Pennsy.

[Raymo]

During the Thursday break, I went to the Coles Transportation Museum in Bangor.

[Raymo]

This display has a model built by Wilbur Frey. Wilbur built these loco's out of cardboard, sheetmetal, different woods, and wire. They're in museum's all over New England and Canada. He moved to Arizona to retire and continued building them there. I know of two he built for the Grand Canyon Railroad. I'm fortunate to own one of his models.

[Raymo]

This truck was part of a fleet of 5? that were built to haul potatoes to the market in Boston and then haul fuel oil back to Maine in the tank behind the cab. They must have been a bear to drive.

[Raymo]

Model T Sno-mobile invented by the people at White's Ford in Ossipee N.H.

[NEMMRRC]

I'm back home. I just downloaded approximately 1,175 photos to my computer. It will take me a short while to go through all of them and sort out the good ones from the not-so-good ones. Then I need to toss out the incriminating ones and post the best from the remaining ones to the forum and my narrow gauge website.


Later.


Jaime

[Jerry]

Thanks for the pictures Jaime.

Jerry