Winterfest 2015

Another year has passed, and the long snowy weekend of January 23-25 I participated in Northeast N-TRAK's Winterfest program. I've been heading up to West Springfield, MA for this evemt the last 5 or 6 years. I look forward to it every year! Seeing old friends, and meeting new ones.

This year, I didn't run anything on the big N-TRAK layouts. Instead, I was involved with the very first T-TRAK display at the show, and spent most of my time there. This year, we grew to have layouts (two N-TRAK and one T-TRAK) in three separate buildings. Unreal!!

Many thanks to Fay Chin of Northeast NTRAK and Dave Ferrari of NNJ-NTRAK (my home club) for getting together and making it happen.

Front: Fay Chin, ME!, Ken Harstine
Back: George Michaels, Dave Ferrari, Dirk Nieuwdorp, Phil Brown

Not present: Warren S, Geoff Dunne

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Layout Photos

Full View the full 2015-Northeast Region T-TRAK gallery HERE

T-Trak Module Set

This past weekend, our club put both our N-TRAK and T-TRAK layouts on display:

My Conrail #7883 GP-38 taking a bridge crossing on the NTRAK layout.

And... a few videos...

quick short!

More T-TRAK Modules

Nothing like a train show on the schedule to get your ass in gear, and build! Had a whirlwind week of building and scenicing 4 modules for our club's T-TRAK debut. I built 3 doubles and 1 single.

Yes, there is still MUCH MUCH more work/tweaking to be done on these modules, and I will in short order! But for now, I'm happy how they turned out. 

 

Scenery - drying time outside

I call this "East" or the "A" module

In the layout (our N-TRAK setup in the background.

"Neighbors" module

T-Trak Modules

Back after a "non-train" summer of lawn mowing, home repairs and improvements, and other things...

Last year, members in my N-TRAK club starting talking about T-TRAK. I was curious, and a few of us started to plan modules. Well, I've put my first module together. No scenery yet, but it's coming along. Quick construction photos:

Topside

Underside.

Yes, it's half-inch foam core.

Built a couple more "doubles" today:

All three modules - track laid, but not secure