Trainfest 2013 photos

Here are some highlights from this year’s Trainfest at State Fair Park in Milwaukee.

Nicely lit station scene. Milwaukee ‘N’ Southeastern, N scale.


Z scale model of Miller Park (with the roof open, of course). Wiz Kids layout.


This cozy HO house was built by Peter Hocking. There’s a garden and a woodpile out back.


Clinics and demos at Trainfest are mostly manned by the talented Canadian modelers of the NMRA Niagara Frontier Region. Neville Meads enjoys chatting with a visitor.

 

The big top is in town on the Capitol City N’gineers layout (N scale).


Farmers’ market on the Independent Hi-Railers excellent O gauge layout.


I think the conductor got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Independent Hi-Railers, O scale.


This little girl gets a realistic track-level view. I think this is the Wisconsin & Michigan Model RR Club HO layout.

 

Well-done factory complex on a NorthWest NTrak Club module.


More from NorthWest NTrak


Canoe excursion on the Smoke River Junction NTrak module


Trains look good from underneath, too.

 

Shiny tinplate with smoke appeals to all ages.



Now, THAT is one big roundhouse!



C&NW E unit on ModUTrak (N scale)



C&NW SW1 on ModUTrak (N scale)

 

Same here. That's what Bachmann should have made instead of another NW2, after the 44 and 70 tonners something as big as an SW1 should be a piece of cake for them.

 

That SW1 is Vince Kotnik's work. It's a Kato mechanism and shell he cut up. His GP10 and SD10 in Milwaukee Road are equally as awesome.

Thanks for the pictures. You captured alot of what Trainfest is all about. KIDS! Brought my kids up on Saturday and that G scale layout with the roundhouse was a hit. They wouldn't leave the carnival modules. I think we stood there for forty minutes!

And whoever decided put Modutrak next to the Thomas store and across for Lombard Hobbies, was pure evil.

 

Thanks for the pics. Do to health issues I couldn't make it.

 

Not nearly as good as Fishplate's, my snapshots are up on Flickr finally: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oblivion/sets/72157637848964735

 

Neat photos especially the ballpark in z.