Back to Arcola Rockome Gardens 2002 Show Thumbs
Photo Set 1
Photos by Wayne Burling
| A long shot down the length of the club-owned 5 section N-Trak yard modules. It is always entertaining to find a volunteer to go to our rental storage garage and haul these to and from each train show. The next thing we want to do to these is modify the throat module at either end to take a track away from the top and bottom of the Yellow line and add 1 more to the Red and Blue lines. Right now, Yellow has 6 tracks while Red and Blue have only 2 each. Looking at the throat module in the foreground, you can see how we used buff ballast on the main line tracks to visually stand out from the black/gray ballast color mix of the yard tracks. Eliminates all questions of which track is which. There is not a whole lot you can do to scenic a club yard. We bring boxes of buildings and put them at the back, along the skyboards, to avoid the barren look. Don't bother putting buildings along the front, as they will only get in the way of people trying to set up their trains. |
| One of the first modules built by an MVNS member, Glenn Koproske's River module has withstood the test of time. It won the popular vote contest at an NMRA show in its early years. Adding a flickering campfire module greatly enhanced its crowd appeal. |
| Wayne picked up this steamer for a song at the show, and after slight tweaking, it ran like a champ the rest of the time we were at Arcola. A great bargain. Unusual to find a Chesapeake & Ohio roadname too. |
| Wayne's "new" old steam engine pulls a C&O passenger train while Glenn's C&NW freight heads in the other direction. |