George Washington Train Show Part 1

[PFMcFarland]

The C&O Historical Society puts on an annual show every February at Clifton Forge, VA. It celebrates the rich rail history of the region, and is fun for a lot of people, not the least of which are the ones putting on the show.

They have a model train exposition at the towns Armory, with vendors selling rolling stock of all gauges, railroad antiques, and even t-shirts. This Part 1 will show what that was like.

Across town at the Henry Hoffman Heritage Center are the outdoors displays of locomotives, passenger cars, M of W equipment, and a 7.5 inch gauge train that folks can take rides on. Those photos will be in Part 2.

I shot Part 1 mostly to capture the Atlantic Coast S-Gaugers layout for a relative, but mixed in some HO scale, and N scale (my favorite).

All photos taken on the Nikon Coolpix P7700 due to the mix of indoor/outdoor shooting for that day, and to get the most amount of exposures. Luckily, the battery held out until just about closing time.

S Gauge Freight

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Give your phone a train ride 1

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Give your phone a train ride 2

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Just huff puff puffing along

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Young engineer

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



HO-Scale

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr



Dancing to the N-Scale roundhouse blues

George Washington Model Train Show by P F McFarland, on Flickr

See all 47 photos, and 1 video at https://flic.kr/s/aHskuTg7z9

And stay tuned for Part 2, when I hit the rail yard.

PF

[Brazile]

The "give your phone a ride" idea is a clever one. Glad the P7700 held out...

Robert

[Julio1fer]

Awesome show. There are more model trains there than I have seen in all my life. Good work!

White balance came out all right.

[PFMcFarland]

Awesome show. There are more model trains there than I have seen in all my life. Good work!

White balance came out all right.

I started with 800 ISO, but switched up to 1600 ISO, with 5000K on the white balance.

PF

[MichelleMcCarter]

The train show is interesting for both kids and their parents. In my opinion, the "give your phone a ride" idea is a really clever one. Substantially, George Washington played a big role in the development of our country.

[GrahamS]

Memories of my youth. I had a job with a big department store in the hobbies dept building N & HO gauge train layouts. I have never had the space to build one for myself. Nice images, Phil.

[PFMcFarland]

Memories of my youth. I had a job with a big department store in the hobbies dept building N & HO gauge train layouts. I have never had the space to build one for myself. Nice images, Phil.

Thanks, Graham. The N scale layout shown was built on a hollow core door. I've done one myself, and you can pack a lot of scenery, and trackage on one. It was later incorporated into a large stationary layout, but was meant to be portable for taking to train shows and the like. When not in use, it could be stored out of the way. I also wired it for DC, and DCC control.

PF

[GrahamS]

Thanks, Graham. The N scale layout shown was built on a hollow core door. I've done one myself, and you can pack a lot of scenery, and trackage on one. It was later incorporated into a large stationary layout, but was meant to be portable for taking to train shows and the like. When not in use, it could be stored out of the way. I also wired it for DC, and DCC control.

PF

Now you got me scheming........

[scott]

Some of my favorite memories are taking my son to train shows, as recent as four years ago.

Gotta say though, I was hoping to see the phone-on-the-loco video...