2nd Annual Winslow RR Days
The 2007 Winslow Railroad Days April 19th-22nd was the second annual railroad event for the town of Winslow, AZ. Last time, in 2006
, we setup an Ntrak layout in the same building but this year's 2007 show easily topped the year before.
All thanks to Dan Lutzick of the Snowdrift Art Gallery who provided the layout space for
the event. The second annual show was very good in respect to layouts and model railroad
participants. However, we were slightly disappointed in the public turn out, it just wasn't as
good as the first year. Regardless the club members still came together and the
Ntrak layout was one of the biggest we had managed. We had planned on having
the BNSF railroad in Winslow helping out with some tours and locomotive demos (which was only
a possibility to begin with) but that never surfaced. For 2007 we were trying to
make the show more than just layouts, so we tried including railfanning tours and adventures.
Unfortunately we did not succeed in our endeavors and lack of response from the public held
us back from that. We expect as the event of RR Days gets more known through AZ, this will
eventually happen.
For the behind the scenes look at the Ntrak layout. The Layout was 60ft x 42ft square.
We had a total of 5 Ntrak clubs attend with modules. Tucson Ntrak was the show manager
then Prescott Valley Ntrak, New Mexico Rail Runners, Denver Area Ntrak (DANS) and finally
SNNT (Nevada). The layout consisted of two loops connected by
the red line track. This allowed both loops to be run on by a single train and it made for a huge amount train
traffic to be run. Red Line was DCC on both loops, which were linked by a bridge. The Tucson loop was run all DCC with Mountain line
and the Prescott Loop was run blue and yellow DC (no green).
The amount of trains we ran was incredible, the only huge problem we
encountered was the Red Line digitrax command station and transformer kept cutting out, we think it was because of the
amount of track and amount of trains that were running all off that one station, so by saturday we isolated the loops and ran two boosters
one for each loop (sacrificing the mountain line power), which seemed to solve any issues. We got good words from all the N scale clubs and we hope
to do it again next year. A Special thanks goes to Dan Lutzick, again for opening his doors
for such a big event, we really appreciate the weekend Dan.
SnowDrift Gallery
La Posada Hotel/ Depot
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Layout Overview
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Tucson Ntrak Photos
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Prescott Valley Arizona Ntrak
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New Mexico RailRunners
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SNNT (Nevada Ntrak)
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Denver Area Ntrak (DANS)
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HO Clubs "Free-Mo modular style"