NSC Denver Colorado - 2006
The N Scale National Convention for 2006 was put together by the N Scale Collector.
The convention was about week long, August 8th-13th 2006, it was located at the
Radisson Hotel in Aurora. The convention had many big name
vendors and manufacturers in attendance. Names like Kato, Atlas, Intermountain and
vendors such as TexNRails, Wig-Wag, BLMA, Richmond Controls and more. The Ntrak layout this time wasn't as big
as the San Diego layout a year prior but, it was big enough. A 498 foot overall length was plenty big.
The club that hosted the layout and managed the layout building process was a local club named DANS Ntrak.
They did an extremely good job with the set up process, trouble shooting and other problems of that nature.
Tucson Ntrak came the furthest of all the clubs and we attended the show with 72 ft of modules (in the layout, not including staging).
We made up about 80% of the mountain division loop which was again powered completely DCC by our Brain Box.
The Red Line was once again sponsored by Digitrax and ran really well. It took about 20 minutes to get around. Which was mainly due to
congestion on the track. Three long coal trains ruled the layout on Sunday. We had a 107 car coal train followed by 2, 60
car coal trains. All in all we had a great time; it was well worth the trip. We had to dodge some layout problems on Friday till 2:30 in the morning but
but we did get them fixed. The only thing we were disappointed in was the time. We were hoping to have a Thursday night, fri, sat, sun running schedule
but we only got sat and sun to run because of tight event space. But other than that we were happy with the N Scale Collector and the DANS management through out the whole week. Special thanks to David Porter
who was the layout chief, you did a really great job. Unfortunately we
will not be able to attend the 2007 NSC show due to traveling distances.
Tucson Ntrak Modules (Mt. Line Division)
Overview of our division
Overview of our stuff
Garys Canyon
Our shrine below the yard
Pats drive Inn theater
Garys lift gate/ walk through
The new staging yard, well, it worked
a little bit, but needs new curves
Bills town
Our loop with the staging
The 'foreign' side of our loop
Bills town in there two
Prescott Valley, AZ Ntrak Modules (Larry and Mary Davis)
Over view of Prescott Valley, AZ Modules
Other side overview
Winslow, Arizona Module
Pompano, Flordia Module
New York
Flagstaff, Arizona Module
Folkston Funnel, Georgia Module.
Its first show
Glacier Park, Montana Module
Monolith Tehachapi Pass, CA
Monolith
Other Interesting Modules
Oklahoma City Ntraks, Air strip
Austin Ntrak's unique looping module,
the first part
The second part/ whole thing
New Mexico Railrunners
NM Railrunner, whatever goes in
the canyon- they keep!
Individual owned module
Tex N Rails bridges
NM Railrunner HUGE steel mill
A real super- elevated curve
A whole 60car train
NM Railrunner oil refinery
Through the loop
The NMRR Steel Mill, voted best of show
The most amazing module ever
Disneyland, made by NM RailRunners
DisneyLand, the happiest place on Earth
DisneyLand
KSONS Module
Austin Ntrak junction to the loop
Individual Owned
Close view on Tex N Rail Bridges
More Tex N Rail Scenery
More Tex N Rail Scenery
Oklahoma Ntrak Grain Silo
Far end of the layout
Good view of the whole Spine
More overview
The New Mexico Rail Runners loop
End of the spine
The other side of the NMRR loop
NMRR Oil Refinery
They called it a Handicapped
Its 2ft
Highway through Mountains
Construction
Mountain Line bridge
Creative pond/lake
NMRR Highway
NSC Denver Colorado - 2006
The N Scale National Convention for 2006 was put together by the N Scale Collector. The convention was about week long, August 8th-13th 2006, it was located at the Radisson Hotel in Aurora. The convention had many big name vendors and manufacturers in attendance. Names like Kato, Atlas, Intermountain and vendors such as TexNRails, Wig-Wag, BLMA, Richmond Controls and more. The Ntrak layout this time wasn't as big as the San Diego layout a year prior but, it was big enough. A 498 foot overall length was plenty big. The club that hosted the layout and managed the layout building process was a local club named DANS Ntrak. They did an extremely good job with the set up process, trouble shooting and other problems of that nature. Tucson Ntrak came the furthest of all the clubs and we attended the show with 72 ft of modules (in the layout, not including staging). We made up about 80% of the mountain division loop which was again powered completely DCC by our Brain Box. The Red Line was once again sponsored by Digitrax and ran really well. It took about 20 minutes to get around. Which was mainly due to congestion on the track. Three long coal trains ruled the layout on Sunday. We had a 107 car coal train followed by 2, 60 car coal trains. All in all we had a great time; it was well worth the trip. We had to dodge some layout problems on Friday till 2:30 in the morning but but we did get them fixed. The only thing we were disappointed in was the time. We were hoping to have a Thursday night, fri, sat, sun running schedule but we only got sat and sun to run because of tight event space. But other than that we were happy with the N Scale Collector and the DANS management through out the whole week. Special thanks to David Porter who was the layout chief, you did a really great job. Unfortunately we will not be able to attend the 2007 NSC show due to traveling distances.
Tucson Ntrak Modules (Mt. Line Division)
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Prescott Valley, AZ Ntrak Modules (Larry and Mary Davis)
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Its first show 
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Other Interesting Modules
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the canyon- they keep! 
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Disneyland, made by NM RailRunners 
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Its 2ft 
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