2021 National Narrow Gauge Convention in Hickory, NC

[NEMMRRC]

Greetings one and all and welcome back to another National Narrow Gauge Convention. In 2021 it was held in Hickory, NC and I am very glad I attended. I am a bit rusty on this whole forum posting business let alone NNGC postings. The last one I attended was in 2018 in the twin cities in Minnesota.


Here is a photo of the Best Of Show at Hickory, NC. The model was scratch built by Don Railton.





This year I opted not to lug around a heavy DSLR and instead made pretty much all my photos with my iPhone. Therefore, this is going to prove interesting. I'll post more photos as I get them all together. If you want to review past conventions please head on over to my website www.narrowperspective.com for a look.


Later.


Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[NEMMRRC]

Here are some photos of the Diorama entries. These are the winners. I'll post the remainder of the entries later.

1st Place - William W. Davis

















2nd Place - Rick Fulkerson














3rd Place - Kevin Kuzman









Later.

Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[RWL]

Jaime,
I am glad that you had a good time and thank you for the coverage. Does the "Best of Show" look familiar?
Bob

[S&S RR]

Jaime


It sure is great to see your pictures from the Narrow Gauge convention once again on the forum. Thank you so much for taking the time to post them.

[Dennis Bourey]

Jaime
What a great job with the picture's. Dennis

[NEMMRRC]

Here are some photos of the Diorama entries. I'm having to transfer these from my iPhone to my laptop so if I find more entries I'll post them later.














































Later.

Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[NEMMRRC]

Jaime,
I am glad that you had a good time and thank you for the coverage. Does the "Best of Show" look familiar?
Bob

Hi Bob.
Don Railton's work is quite distinct. His "signature" is evident so perhaps that is why there is a familiar look to it. Or maybe this model has appeared elsewhere. I've been out of the "loop" for a while so I may have missed it if featured elsewhere. Pretty cool model nonetheless.


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Jaime


It sure is great to see your pictures from the Narrow Gauge convention once again on the forum. Thank you so much for taking the time to post them.

Sure did miss you at the show. There were some really nice layouts on tour. I managed to make it to 3 super nice ones. I'll get to those later.


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Jaime
What a great job with the picture's. Dennis

It's my pleasure to share them, Dennis. I've seen others sharing their photos on the facebook as well.


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Here is the Favorite Train category. I must confess this is not at all my favorite category out of all the contest categories. The reason why is these are hard to photograph due to their length. It's hard to get all the train in one frame and when you do there is so much other noise around the main subject. Nevertheless, here is the Second Place winner, Tom Sullivan.


















I am searching high and low for the first and third places and well, my silly iPhone doesn't always transfer all the photos in order to my laptop. Oh well, it's just toy trains. I'll sort it all out eventually.


Later.


Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[NEMMRRC]

Here are more entries in the Favorite Train category.




































Later.

Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[NEMMRRC]

Here is the Freight Car category.



1st Place - Dan Wolschon





2nd Place - Dan Stenger





3rd Place - Sam Swanson
























Later.


Jaime
my narrow gauge convention photos

[GPdemayo]

Thanks so much Jamie for your time to post these great photos for those of us who couldn't make it to the convention. 

[ACL1504]

Jaime,

Thanks for all your efforts on sharing the NNGC with us.

Tom 

[Bernd]

Jamie,

Great pictures from the convention. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more if you have them.

Bernd