Tucson GW&ATS 2006 Show

On January 28th & 29th 2006, Tucson Ntrak set up another big layout at the Great Western and Atlantic Train Show (GW&ATS), which has been the replacement for the Great American Train Show (GATS). Over all we put up another wonderful and fully running display at the Pima County Fairgrounds, Thurbur Hall. Everthing went as good or better than last years show (which was really good). We had trains running in all directions and it really made for a crowd favorite. This year we set up a layout that was square shaped at 80ft by 40ft and was made up of modules from our club and Prescott Valley Arizona Ntrak. Unfotunatley Carl Sowell of El Paso Ntrak couldnt make it out because of health and the Phoneix club wasnt able to make it out either but it still turned out to be a wonderful event. We had two layouts, one was the main square and the other contained Stuarts loop modules. Both ran great but the bottom line was we all got to run trains for 12 hours. Thanks to the craftsmanship of Gary Copus we had a walk thorugh lift gate module so we wouldnt have to crawl under the layout to get in (it saved alot of knee's). This was the first year that Tucson Ntrak hosted a clinic about module construction thanks to Les who made that possible. We would like to thank everybody who came and supported us, it really meant alot to hear your opinion. We hope that this show will run again next year, and yes will be there. We also would like to thank Gary's neighbor who loaned us his 20 foot trailer, so we could get all of our stuff to and from the show at no cost.

Tucson Ntrak Photos

The whole picture	Long shot	Sweet Curve, going into transition modules	Yeah, this layout is big
The yard area, it gets busy around here	Old school CNW units passing the passenger station	New Module for this year, a working drive in Theater	At the steel mill
Another end of the layout	A church	Bills Town	Transition Set up
The perfect Railroad	Horseshoe out of a transition	Perhaps the greatest module, the lift gate, walkthrough	Steel Mill by Stewart
Liftgate	New look for pulling a U-ey	Way up there, abandon mill	Passengers are taking a rest
Interior of the layout, our power supply	Long mixed frieght, requires big power	Rushing into the passenger station modules	Transition Set up on Mountain Line
Standing around like true engineer fashion		Our Brain Box power supply, see the modeling tech pg for more

Prescott Valley Arizona Ntrak

(Larry and Mary Davis)

Another bicycle powered Thomas the Tank Engine winter display	Super Chief	Glacier Park, Montana Module	Flagstaff, Arizona Module
Winslow, Arizona Module		Ntrak Module, from start to finish demo

Les & Stuart's loop module display

(also members of Tucson Ntrak)

Overview	Overview	Les Clarks stunning modules, take a look.	Amtrak rounding a curve at the right hand side of the loops
Exiting the loop	Les Clark teaching a clinic on the Ntrak Module	Loops	Over the bridge
Showing the details during the clinic	Lots of passengers	Way up there	Stunning modules
Almost looks real	Riverside view of Les's modules	The un-completed end of the loops	Amtrak over the bridge module (bridges recycled from 620 Lazy J layout)
Riding the other bicycle powered display