NMRA Fall Meet 2006
The club attended the NMRA Arizona Division meet in Tucson, AZ on November 11, 2006. It was held at the Junior League of Tucson which is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism. Anyway, the NMRA has met there the past few years and from there they conduct there clinics and other train business. There is also a place in the show where local layout tour information in Tucson is available. Who ever has a train layout in Tucson is welcome to hold an open house and show off there layout. Since Tucson Ntrak has no permanent layout, we cannot hold an open house. Thanks to director Rick Wheeler, he let the club have access to the Junior Leagues patio for the day. This way we can show off Ntrak right at the show. The layout design was a U shaped looping module layout. About 16x12 with the new staging in the middle. We decided to use the whole 12ft staging because it hadn't been used to full capacity yet. Everything set up in two hours and we were running trains by the time the NMRA guys figured out how to turn off the alarm system. Crowd response was great, it think it opened up a lot of eyes to Ntrak and N scale. As far as running went, it was relatively smooth with no major problems. Staging worked excellent and we sure did fill it. The U shape was fun, made things less boring toward the end of the day. After all, how many times can you run in an oval before you lose interest?
Thumbnail versions are not the best, but the full size is crystal clear (click on thumbs for full version)
Over all set up
Staging Yard
Set up
Glint
Wreck, oops
Looping
Roll by
Left side
Cowboy Town
Drive Inn theater
Bills town
Loop
Staging
On break, preparing roll by
Mt Line cliffs
Service Station
Passing
Staging
Up top
Bills town
Curved Daylight
Stacks up high
Staging
Passenger Special
Loading Up
Side by Side
The daylight
Old School
NMRA Fall Meet 2005
NMRA Fall Meet was on November 5th, 2005 at the Junior League of Tucson (2099 E. River Rd).
We had a 24 ft Ntrak section, utilizing Stuart's loop modules. The show ran from 9-3pm. Tucson Ntrak
decided to set up at the meeting because we dont have a stationary layout setup, therefore, we would
be a part of the layout tours. So we used for the first time Stuart's turn around modules at each end. This allows for
the layout to be a fully straight line. With these modules, the layout will never need to complete a loop with the modules themselves. In this case
we ran ran the red and yellow lines as a loop and the blue and mountain line as a loop.
Over all set up
Un Finished Loop
Un Finished Loop
Loop
Other Loop
Detail Shot
Far Away view
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NMRA Fall Meet 2005
NMRA Fall Meet was on November 5th, 2005 at the Junior League of Tucson (2099 E. River Rd). We had a 24 ft Ntrak section, utilizing Stuart's loop modules. The show ran from 9-3pm. Tucson Ntrak decided to set up at the meeting because we dont have a stationary layout setup, therefore, we would be a part of the layout tours. So we used for the first time Stuart's turn around modules at each end. This allows for the layout to be a fully straight line. With these modules, the layout will never need to complete a loop with the modules themselves. In this case we ran ran the red and yellow lines as a loop and the blue and mountain line as a loop.
Over all set up
Un Finished Loop
Un Finished Loop
Loop
Other Loop
Detail Shot
Far Away view
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