The Rochester Area S-Gaugers have been invited to show our modular layout at the semi-annual TTCS shows for almost ten years now. For this show we set up the modular layout in its ten foot by twenty foot configuration.
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Show Highlights
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There was a good turn out for the set up for the TTCS Shamrock show at the Diplomat Banquet Center. George Cole, Dave Daniel, Roger Delthony, Chuck Smith and Bill Johnson were on hand for this show.
All of the photos on this page were taken by Bill Johnson and Chuck Smith supplied the report on this show.
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Chuck Smith, George Cole and Dave Daniel look at the American Flyer sawmill, our only operating accessory that worked for the entire show. |
Well, it was probably bound to happen at some train show. It's funny how problems bunch up when they happen. Due to a cable connector shorting out we couldn't operate our AF Log loader and left it off the layout. Then we couldn't get the yard lead to operate. Bill Johson finally noticed that a Caboose Industries switch controller had become unmoored from the layout and Dave Daniel made a repair that worked for the remainder of the show. At one point we tried to run on the accessory siding and had a big time short. This was later found to be a pair of connectors that had been crossed during set-up. We did manage to keep the inner and outer main working through the show. The final straw was when the AF barrel loader lost it's caster from the truck and that also couldn't be fixed without 5 minute epoxy. So we ended up with only the AF Sawmill and a couple of action cars working.
We know what to do before we can take the layout to the next show, and it's not a long list and life will be good again. I think this was easily the most frustrating show we've ever done.
Roger Delthony set up some excellent scenery on a pair modules. He had a Flyer circus on one corner and on a straight module there was the Gilbert Manufacturing company under construction, showing "steel" (Erector girders) going up. Spectators liked these a lot.
A variety of trains were run. There was a set of AM New Haven PAs with Budd Cars in tow, horn tooting and bell ringing. There was also a New Haven EP5 pulling a freight consist and the club's American Models 4-8-4 northern class locomotive that ran for the entire show on the outer loop.
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An American Models ALCO pa-pb-pa in New Haven livery passes the American Flyer Circus. |
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The American Models ALCO locomotive set in the above photo is on the point of a Budd passenger consist. |
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The RASG club's American Models 4-8-4 Northern locomotive is passing a New Haven EP5 that is waiting on the side track. |
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The RASG club's American Models 4-8-4 Northern locomotive is on the point of a long freight train. |
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