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NEWSLETTERTRAK Modular Railroading Society. Inc.

November/December, 2007Edited by Jim FitzGerald and Lee Monaco-FitzGerald NTRAK Website: www.ntrak.org

The day after the last issue went to the print shop, I received a CD from Mike Wingfieldof the Louisville KSONS Club. He had gone to the Detroit NMRA Convention and takenphotos, not only of the NTRAK layout, but of the Detroit area and trains at GreenfieldVillage in Dearborn, MI. You will find some of these photos featured in this issue tosupplement the coverage in the previous issue.

Seen above is an overall photo of the NTRAK layout. Below is a wide view of Cobo Halland the entrance to the parking area. The bottom photo is of an elevated two car “PeopleMover” train that runs through the downtown area. Photos by Mike Wingfield.

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Deadline for Coming Events & other materialis the 1st of the month before publication.

(Feb 1st, Apr 1st June 1st,Aug 1st, Oct 1st, and Dec 1st.)

NTRAK, Inc Officers & Directors

General questions and Newsletter material.Jim FitzGerald, NTRAK President, Editor

Lee Monaco-FitzGeraldCorporate Secretary, Editor1150 Wine Country Place

Templeton, CA 93465Phone & Fax 805-434-5058

e-mail: ntrak@tcsn.net

Bob Gatland, Chief Financial OfficerPO Box 2386, Wilton, NY 12831e-mail: rgatland@nycap.rr.com

Renewals, Orders & ShippingDave Porter, Director

PO Box 3618, Parker, CO 80134e-mail: dave@ntrak.orgPhone: (303) 841-7365

Bruce Alcock, Director1030 County St 2930, Tuttle, OK 73089

e-mail: nytrr@hotmail.com

Web Master, Bruce Alcocke-mail: nytrr@hotmail.comWeb site: www.ntrak.org

Next Issue Deadline: Dec. 1st

Ghost Train Cars sold out.

Thanks to all of you who ordered some ofthe Atlas Tank cars that were to have been partof an NTRAK Train fund raiser. All cars havenow been sold.

N Scale Steam Locomotive BookAddendum.

Jim Kline and Craig Barrow have roundedup some great articles on kit bashing N scalesteam engines. These are published in a sepa-rate 44 page booklet that will be included withnew orders for the year old 144 page N SteamLocomotive book.

The addendum is also available separatelyfor $6.00 Included are six 50’s era SP steamthat Russell Straw built to go with his NTRAKmodule set of the Sugar Land, Texas sugarrefinery complex. Gerd Ziller from Germanyshows how he built three truck Shay locomo-tives out of Atlas two truck Shays.

Victor Miranda reworked the Bachmann 0-6-0 switcher for a better motor and improvedpickup. The result is a smooth running switcher.Dave Vollmer converted a Bachmann Spec-trum 2-8-0 into a Pennsy H10 class locomo-tive.

An Erie S-1 Berkshire was created from aLife-Like engine by Chris Schmuck. PaulDowns used the same engine to create Louis-ville and Nashville M1 “Big Emmas” andincludes tips on how he made mold masters sothat he could have a fleet of locomotives.

Tony Hines, following Russ Straw’s ideafor stretching a Kato Mikado from a 2-8-2 toa 2-10-2 and built a B&O S-1 “Big Six”. Thisis a very detailed article.

Tsuguo Ebihara has two articles on rework-ing Japanese models to create a Pennsy K4and a UP 2-6-6-2.

There are also reviews of recent new Nsteam and useful DCC compatibility and steamdetail parts lists.

See page 23 or www.ntrak.org for orderinginformation.

Photos in this issue.

As noted on the front page, much of thisissue is devoted to the CD of photos that MikeWingfield sent to me, taken at Detroit in Julyduring his trip to the convention and sightseeingin the area .

I am always looking for NTRAK Modulephotos, but any train related photos or infor-mation is always welcome. This is your placeto share our hobby.

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New FromMicroTrains®

The 12 Days ofChristmas cars are atthe 11th hour with therelease of 10 Lords aLeaping and 11 PipersPiping. MT #021-00-510 & 511. They are$19.95 each.

A 50’ double plugdoor box car with noroof walk and tall lad-ders, yellow, red anddeep red. LouisianaPacific leased thesecars. USLX 18019 is$23.40 and MT# 075-00-150. Blt 9-71.

In front is a Cana-dian Pacific 89’ flat-car with two 40’ con-tainers with doors thatopen. CP 521135 is$36.60 and MT 072-00-230. Blt 7-75

Behind it is an ATSFtri-level auto rack, oneof two road numbers89396 & 89363. Thecars are Santa Fe redwith white lettering.MT 112-00-051 & 052are $27.85 each.Blt 6-64

A new generatorload rides on a 50’ flat,SSW 85382, MT 045-00-330 is $16.90. Blt4-69.

Diamond Chemicals39’ single dome tankcar is light grey withblack lettering and ared diamond logo.GATX 74350 is MT065-00-190 and$19.95. Blt 11-52

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Old Cars From KitsBill Erwin, one of the founding members of

the Ottawa Valley NTRAK club, sent photosof three cars that he built in the 1980’s fromwood and paper kits. As you can see from thephotos, Bill made great looking cars from thekits. He can’t remember the kit companyname.

If anyone can identify the source of the kits,please contact Bill.

"Bill Erwin" <willy4@canada.com>

Atlas RS-3 in new paint schemes.

In April of 2008 Atlas will be releasing newpaint schemes and road numbers for theirmodel of the Alco RS-3. The prototypes werebuilt in the 1950 to 1956 era and are popularwith people who model the steam/diesel tran-sition era. They were used in everything fromcommuter runs to heavy freight and localfreight. More were found in the Eastern andCentral regions of USA.

To be released are two new road numbersfor Burlington Northern (Green/Black). Newpaint schemes are for Green Bay & Western(Red/Grey/Black), Jersey Central (Red/White) (Coast Guard), Lehigh & Hudson(Green/Yellow), Long Island (Grey/Orange),Ontario Northland (Orange/Blue), Rock Is-land (Maroon/Silver), Rutland (Green/Yel-low) and Spokane, Portland & Seattle (Brown/Yellow).

Expected price is $104.95

Jersey Central, Red/White, Coast Guard Scheme

Rock IslandMaroon / Silver

Spokane, Portland & SeattleBrown & Yellow)

DCC Frames for Sound

Aztec Manufacturing has precision ma-chined diesel frames on an exchange basis thatmake it easy for you to install DCC decodersand now they are also offering frames ma-chined to accept the speakers for sound sys-tems in the Atlas GP40 as well.

For full details on how it looks and how theexchange works, go to www.aztectrains.comand to the DCC Frames page.

They also have a line of custom painted carsfeaturing such things as Micro Brewery logos,excellent track cleaning cars and workingFRED equipped box cars.

Aztec Manufacturing, 2701 Connestoga Dr#113, Carson City, NV 89706, Phone ()775)883-3327

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Adding Home Operation to an NTRAK Module

by Jim FitzGerald

This article is based on pages 2-22 & 2-23 inour How-to Book. If you want some moresuggestions and ideas, please refer to the book.

You live in an apartment or a mobile home.You really don’t have space for a home layout.By building an NTRAK module, you can bepart of large layouts with a local club. But whatto do with the module between shows? Couldit also be a home layout? See diagram on pg 21.

Shown here is a four foot long and 18” widespecial unit that turns a NTRAK module intoa mini layout with a lot of switching puzzles tosolve. When you are ready for an operatingsession, the special unit can be taken out ofstorage and connected to the module. This willadd six industries to your layout. The key tooperating this small layout is the “run aroundtrack”. It makes it possible to leave four cars byindustry #A and shift the engine around thecars and couple to the other end. Now you can

work Industries #B,C,D & F. With the engineon the original end of the car string you canwork Industry #A and E.

If you have industries on your module, theycan be worked from the “Blue” track and thered and yellow can be yard tracks.

A simple extension can be used on the otherend of the NTRAK module. In the How toBook a second Special Unit is also added andsix more industries are available. Dependingon the design of the second unit, the threeNTRAK tracks could have other uses. Theunits would “C” clamp to the module andwould need at least one leg on the outer end forsupport, two would be better. All tracks wouldbe wired to a single throttle. MicroTrains®magnetic uncoupling ramps could be used, oryou could do as the railroads do and uncoupleby hand. Some modelers use a long toothpickor the “Rix Pix” uncoupling tool to spread thecouplers as they pull the train away.

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Convention-goersadmiring the No VANTRAK Nn3 layout.Sometimes this layoutwas surrounded three-deep.

Below, a pile driverbarge on one of theexquisitely detailedNn3 NVNTRAK mod-ules.

More fine modelbuilding on the Nn3modules – this time, one

of Bar Mill’s Saulena’s Tavern kits. This oneincludes a fully detailed and lighted interior!

By Tom Knapp(with notes from Jim

La Baugh)The 27th National

Narrow Gauge Con-vention was held thisSeptember in the seaport (and 2-foot-gaugerailroad town) of Port-land, Maine – a won-derful town with a vi-brant “old town” on thewaterfront.

The waterfront is a

working water front withfisherman's boats, tug-boats, and a Coast Guardcutter. The waterfrontborders a city street, atthe base of a hill full ofold brick buildings nowconverted to dwellings,boutiques, wine bars,and restaurants of allkinds.

For those unfamiliarwith the NNGC, it is sim-ply the best model trainshow of the year, attract-

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Above, The passenger car category in theContest Room – there are four scales repre-sented in this photo!

Left: Clear-cut logging slash on theNVNTRAK Nn3 layout.

Right: My DCC-equipped pager-mo-tor powered Nn3railbus and trailer,built from a brassJapanese kit.

B e l o w : N o l lHoran’s S-curvedtrestle on the No VaNTRAK Nn3 layout.

ing narrow gaugemodelers from allover the world. Themodeling you see atthe NNGC is the bestthere is whateverscale you model in.

Jim LaBaugh,Steve Zutter, Bill andJoAnn Redfearn, andNoll Horan had thew o n d e r f u lNVNTRAK Nn3 lay-out there (with NollHoran's s-curvetrestle) – one of manymodular layouts ondisplay in scales rang-ing from Nn3 to Fn3.(I must admit to be-ing impressed withthe Fn3 (1:20.3)“K’s” – with greatsound and smoke.

Another highlightof the NNGC is thevendor room – or“rooms” in this case –on two floors.

Next time ,Tom willtell of some prototypeNarrow gauge trainshe saw and rode on.

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NtrakOK, the 13th Annual Southern PlainN Scale Convention and the Oklahoma CityTrain Show being held November 29th throughSunday, December 2nd, 2007.

The thirteenth NtrakOK starts on Thursday,November 29th, with a trip to Enid to visit theRailroad Museum of Oklahoma, then travel toGuthrie, the first capital of Oklahoma forlunch at the Old Santa Fe Depot, which issituated right next to the busy BNSF mainrunning between Kansas and Texas followedby a tour of the Model Train and AutomobileMuseum, also in Guthrie.

When we return to the convention hotel, wehave three clinics scheduled for the afternoon,each about one hour in length. One newaddition is scheduling a room for the evening,allowing people a place to set up exhibits, orjust put out items for sale or swap.

Friday morning is show setup, but our guestswill be able to travel down to Norman and seethe old Santa Fe station in that town. In the

Northeast Ntrak will host Winterfest 2008,the 14th Annual Northeast Ntrak Conventionheld in conjunction with the “Big RailroadHobby Show” of the Amherst Railway Soci-ety, Inc. at the Eastern States ExpositionGrounds, “The Big E”, at 1305 MemorialAvenue, West Springfield, MA on January26-27, 2008. The Ntrak layout set up will takeplace on Friday between noon and 5:00 P.M.The Hilton Garden Inn, 800 Columbus Av-enue, Springfield, MA will again be the con-vention hotel with registration and clinicsFriday night and the traditional banquet, con-test awards presentation, guest speaker, etc.on Saturday night. Model, module, photo, andparade-of-trains (best train) contests will beheld at the layout on Saturday.

To reserve space for your module in theNtrak layout, please call the Layout Coordina-tor, John Dunne at 508-697-7635. Hotel res-ervations should be made before January 11,2008, by calling 413-886-8000 or 800-774-1500 and mentioning “NTRAK” to get theconvention rate. Details and the on-line reg-istration form are scheduled to be available at:

www.NortheastNtrak.org no later thanNovember 25, 2007 by clicking on “WinterfestInformation.” Those who attended Winterfest2007 will be notified when the details and on-line registration forms are ready. For otherquestions write Bob Pawlak, Chairman,Winterfest 2008, at:

pawlak@alum.mit.eduor call him at 781-862-2485.

Winterfest 2008Springfield, MA,

January 25-27, 2008

Oklahoma City N Conventionafternoon, we start setting up the big Ntraklayout, which occupies an area that is 100 by60 feet in size. We usually try to reserve tablespace for T-TRAK modules and our whiteelephant sale. This provides attendees withthe opportunity to bring items to the show andsell them without having to reserve a booth.

The Oklahoma City Train Show starts Sat-urday morning at 9 am at the Oklahoma StateFairgrounds in the Transportation Building.Attendance usually tops 12,000 attendees overthe two days. The show has layouts in allscales, and vendors from as far away as NewHampshire. Items for sale range from Z scaleto tinplate to memorabilia, to sound record-ing, books and everything in between.

After the show closes on Saturday, we willbe going back to the convention hotel, andhaving our annual banquet. Last year, BobeyeHall was our guest speaker. This year's speakerhas not been announced, yet. Our master ofceremonies is Mr. Richard Fisher and we tryto have a door prize for everyone.

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vanced consisting address. We will also begiving out extra blocks of 25 numbers forthose who request them.

Our convention hotel is the Clarion, whichis located only a few miles from the FairGrounds where the Train Show is held. Thereis a train show rate of $62 per night which canbe guaranteed by calling 405-942-8511. Res-ervations must be made before November14th.

To register, just visit the Oklahoma N-Railweb site at oknrail.org and click on the con-vention link. If you need more information,you can send mail to convention@oknrail.orgor call 972-489-7903. We do request thatregistration be completed by November 23rd.We look forward to seeing you.

Sunday morning starts off with a pancakebreakfast for conventioneers, dealers and otherexhibitors, that is a show tradition. Doorsopen at 11 am and the show runs until 5 pm.

We don't charge a registration fee for at-tendees who bring a module or are membersof a club that brings modules. However, wedo require that everyone register and this hasbecome even more important for runningDCC.

In the past, we have been able to let peoplerun their engines as they program them andthere have been only a few conflicts. As thenumber of people running DCC grows and aspeople increase the size of their DCC fleets,it is now becoming necessary to start assign-ing numbers, and we are giving out registra-tion numbers that can be used for the ad-

Photo furnished byBruce Alcock

Anaheim NMRA National Train ShowThe NMRA National Train Show will be

July 15-19, 2008 at the convention center inAnaheim, California, near Disney Land.

If you would like to have a module, or twoor three or more, in this layout we would liketo hear from you so that space and layout plansto fit can be worked out. People with a moduleand a helper can get Exhibitor Passes to theTrain Show. This doesn’t get you into theNMRA Convention, Clinics or Tours. That isa separate registration through the NMRA. Goto their web site for information.www.nmra.org.

If you want to have modules in the layout,please contact:

Arnold Arons, 1524 S Long Beach Ave,Los Angeles, CA 90021aronsmfgco@dslextreme.com.

Please indicate the length of the module,whether it has Mountain Division tracks or isextra deep, etc. Size for corners or junctionmodules. If the module should be next toanother person’s module or in a club part ofthe layout, please indicate that and we will tryand find the right location for your modules

Plan your 2008 vacation to include a trip forthe whole family in Southern California. Thereare lots of things to see and do..

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by Matt Schaefer

ADDING CURVES - I have always likedcurvaceous track because that is the way myfavorite prototypes really are and trains lookgood snaking around broad curves. The objectwas to add free form curves to layouts and alsokeep the basic layout width of 14, 18 or 20‚etc. without the need for extra spacer modules.The addition of 2 and 2 sometimes boggles themind in the rush to set up. I came up withseveral plans for special 2 x 6 corner thatmaybe looks like my New River modules butare smaller, lighter and simpler too. See sketchthat Jim is using to keep me honest on thecurve standards!

NTRAK STANDARDS - One module canbe a standard 3 x 3 corner and should havesome scenery to match the new design. the 2x 6 corner. This 2 x 6 can fit a 3 x 6 frame. Oneoption is to give the outside yellow and redmains a radius of 24” and 25.5” radii so thatthe blue can have a 22.5”radius. This in turnallows more room for a healthy 10” tangent inthe middle of the S curve thus helping to keepthe long cars on the rails!

LAYOUT DIMENSIONS - The other cor-ners are the standard 3’ x 3’ size because theyare smaller and lighter than the 4 x 4s and arewhat our club, NVNtrak, uses but the samefree form ideas could be used based aroundlarger 4 x 4 corners. The width of the layoutshown is 14” which is the norm if using 2 ea.4 footers on the ends with 3 x 3 corners. I callthis "free form" because these are really curvesand no longer 90-degree "corners". One ormore similar free form could be added else-where in the layout.

VARIETY FOR SPICE - An option is toextend the 180-degree loop on the bottomwith more modules. When clamping up themodules it is always a good idea to eyeball theconnector tracks a second time to ensure youdo not make the curves worse but line them tomake the smoothest curves. Variety is thespice of Ntrak. I hope it will get others to thinkoutside the box layout, which was the wholereason for the New River style modules in thefirst place.

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This is one of Matt’s earlier curved trackNew River Modules.

Drawing by Matt.

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Above is another view of the layout in Cobo Hall last July.The module below is by Len and Carol VanderJagt who were also

active in coordinating the layout for their Lansing NTRAK Club.

Photos by Mike Wingfield

More Photos of the Detroit National Train Show

A corner module is a great spotfor a round house and turntable.

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This 12’ set of Ore Boat moduleswas built by Harry Smith of theSyracuse, NY “Salt City NTRAK”club. The 430’ Ore boat was scratchbuilt from styrene. the other boat isa kit. the unloading terminal is afree lance version of Great Lakesterminals.

Photos by Mike Wingfield

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This is part of amining scene on theMtn. Div. level in apair of module builtby the LansingNTRAK Club.

Photos byMike Wingfield

The crane on DonKreigbaum’s scrapyard has sent outmany loads ofscrap, but it keepscoming back!

The kids sure loveto operate the crane.

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Greenfield Village in Dearborn is not justautomobiles and Henry Ford related items.Trains are there as well. They have wellequipped work shops where you can see res-toration of cars and engines going on.

The Rio Grande locomotive was beingbacked into the shed after a day of pullingpassenger cars at the Village.

There are also trains used to pull visitorsaround the Village.

Photos by Mike Wingfield

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A beautifully restoredrailroad crane used by theDetroit River Tunnel Co.is part of the GreenfieldVillage collection.

Photos byMike Wingfield

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A fully restoredsteam engine, alongwith a small dieselswitcher, are on dis-play in the roundhouseand turntable area.

Photos byMike Wingfield

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For this restored 4-4-2 there is a pit under-neath so that you can get a close look at seldomseen parts of a steam engine. Notice hownarrow the tread on the drivers is, compared to

our models. The eccentrics, straps, links, etc.,which were a part of Stephenson Link Motionvalve gear, are located on the main drivingaxle between the frames of the locomotive.

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The under side of the roof is varnished woodand all the pipes and metal surfaces have beenrestored and polished. No doubt it looks betterthan the day it left the factory in Schenectady,New York in 1902. Photos by Mike Wingfield

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"TRAMS, TROLLEYS, TRAINS, TWO TRACK, TABLE TOP".

Have you tried a T-TRAK Module yet?

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Basic Long- 12-1/4”Basic Short- 11-3/4”

Alt. Long- 14-3/8”Alt. Short- 13-7/8”

Kato Unitrack4 ea #20-170, 8-1/2” RFrom Assort. #$20-0911 ea 1-1/8”, 2 ea 1-3/4”

Kato Unitrack2 ea #20-120, 12-3/8” R

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* Prepare Glue Blocks.* Glue blocks to short sides.* Let glue dry.* Glue long sides to short sides.* Let glue dry.* Glue top to frame* Glue small center blocks.* Add track.* Run Trains !!!

T-TRAK Basic & Alternate Corner ModulesEasy Instructions, by Lee

New N Scale Modelingby Lee

www.T-TRAK.orge-mail: Lee@T-TRAK.org

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

Information on future NTRAK layouts,meets or conventions is being gathered byNTRAK Director, Dave Porter:

<dave@ntrak.org>PO Box 3618Parker, Co 80134303-841-7365

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.

Nov 10-11, Rosevillle, CA31st Annual International Railfair, Placer County Fair-

grounds, Display layouts, NTRAK, dealers, train rides,free parking, $7 per person, Sunday Family Special $10.www.internationalrailfair.com

Nov 10-11, Ft Worth, TX23rd Annual Ft Worth Train Show, Amon Carter Exhib-

its Blg, Will Rogers Memorial Ctr.10 to 5 Sat, 10 to 4 Sun.$7 per person, under 12 free. www.dfwtrainshows.com

Dec1-2, Oklahoma City, OKOK State Fairgrounds, Train Show & N conv, NTRAK

Layout, See page 8 for details.

Jan 25-27, Springfield, MA.14th Annual Winterfest 2008. Eastern States Expo “Big

Railroad Hobby Show”, NTRAK Layout and N conven-tion. For Info/Registration:

www.NortheastNtrak.orgSee page 8 for more details.

Feb 2-3, Monroe, WA (Seattle area)United NW M RR Club 17th annual Train Show & Swap

Meet. Evergreen State Fairgrounds Arena - Blg 100 (HorseArena}. Benefit Equifriends, a therapeutic equestrian pro-gram. Adults $7. Seniors/Juniors $5 10 to 4 daily. ContactTom Hart (425) 241-1358.

Apr 24-27, 2008 Winslow, AZWinslow Railroad Days, NTRAK Layout, Contact:

John Scott, bnsfry@yahoo.com http://home.comcast.net/~tucsonntrak/

May 23-25, Asheville, NCSER Regional Convention, Fairgrounds, T-TRAK &

NTRAK Layouts. More details next issue.

Jun 25 - 29, 2008, Louisville,KY]2008 National N Scale Convention, Kentucky Interna-

tional Convention Center, Paul Downs,pauljdowns@mac.com www.2008-national-N-Scale-Convention.com 502-895-6578146,000 sq. feet of convention space, very large NTRAKlayout.

Jul 13 -19, 2008, Anaheim, CANMRA National Train Show, Anaheim Convention

Center http://as2008.org

2009 Hartford, CT NMRA National Train Show2009 Edison, NJ National NTRAK Show ?2010 Milwaukee, WI NMRA National Train Show

2010 Richmond. VA National NTRAK Show 2011 Sacramento, CA NMRA National Train Show 2012 Grand Rapids, MI, NMRA National TrainShow

Large Train Show, Including Eliada Home T-TRAK Layout,Asheville, NC Area.

The show is Dec.7-8 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds Fri.12:00-7 PM and Sat.9 AM to 5 PM. I-40 exit 24 turn onto Hwy 209 South and follow signs. There will bethree operating layouts including the Eliada Home T-TRAK. Free parking. Admission$5:00 Children under 13 free with adult. Over 100 tables. This is in the Lake JunaluskaN.C. area, about 20 miles west of the Asheville. Phone 828-452-0983 for info.