THE OFFICIAL WEBPAGE
OF ROBERT D. WEST
GATS - November 2005
The Great American Train Show (technically the Great Western and Atlantic Train Show) was held at the Clark County Fairgrounds near Vancouver, Washington on November 12-13, 2005. This was the first train show I brought my digital camera to, and I discovered that pictures of moving model trains usually don't come out.
Vendors
There were some rare and legendary Lionel trains for sale by some of the vendors at this show.
Lionel
Standard (No. 1) Gauge 3-Car State Set. I believe this is the
Olympian.
Lionel
Standard (No. 1) Gauge Work Train Set and others
Lionel
Standard (No. 1) Gauge Blue Comet Locomotive
Lionel
O-27 Blue Comet 263E Locomotive and 4 cars.
Z-Scale
I'm not sure exactly who was displaying these small layouts, but they were fascinating.
Small Z-Scale
Layout under Plexiglas
Small Z-Scale
Layout in a Briefcase
Aloha & Western Oregon Lines Model Railroad Club
Sawmill
Scene on the Aloha &
Western Oregon Model Railroad Club's HO-Scale layout.
Port
Authority Intermodal Facility
Roundhouse
and Turntable
Southern
Pacific 2-6-0 #2543
Engine
Shop
Scrapyard
Euro Trains
A Chesapeake & Ohio
BL2 seems a little out of place on the European-themed Euro Trains
HO-scale layout.
Oregon O-Scalers
Great Northern
1909 Baldwin H-4 Class 4-6-2 #1447.
Great Northern
R-2 Class 2-8-8-2.
Great Northern
1923 Baldwin P-2 Class 4-8-2 #2523.
Great Northern
O-8 Class 2-8-2 #3399 and R-2 Class 2-8-8-2 double-heading on a freight
train at Summit.
Great Northern W-1
Class electric locomotive #5019.
Great Northern Y-1
Class electric locomotives #5016 & #5017 in the Omaha orange and
Pullman green paint scheme.
Great Northern Y-1
Class electric locomotives #5013 & #5014 in the original Pullman
green paint scheme.
Great Northern
1902 Rogers E-6 Class 4-6-0 #927.
Pacific Northwest Modular Railroad Club
Union Pacific DD40 #78
on the Pacific Northwest Modular Railroad Club's HO-Scale layout.
Twin Lakes & Western
The
working Drive-In
Theater appears to be showing Harry Potter.
BNSF
B40-8W #573 in Santa Fe Warbonnet paint leads another BNSF B40-8W in
Heritage II paint through downtown Twin Lakes.
The
Palace Theater in Twin Lakes is currently showing Chicken Little.
Several
boats and sunbathers, as well as a Snap-On Tool truck, are at the Twin
Lakes marina.
BNSF
SD70MAC #9647 in its unique paint scheme leads a BNSF C44-9W in Heritage
I colors and a coal train across a bridge and a grade crossing.
Specially
painted Willamette and Pacific woodchip gondolas: WPRR #74001 for the
Oregon State Beavers
and WPRR #74002 for the University of Oregon Ducks. In the background
are Southern Pacific SD45T-2 #9359 and Bicentennial caboose #1776.
BNSF
SD70MAC
#9647 pausing by the marina in Twin Lakes.
BNSF
B40-8W
#573 leads its train across the grade crossing next to the drive-in
theater.
BNSF
SD70MAC
#9647 pulls a coal train across the bridge.
Tualatin Valley Model Railroad Club
A
Portland General Electric coal train around the loop on the
Tualatin Valley Model
Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.
The
Portland General Electric coal train with Union Pacific and Chicago &
North Western locomotives and a Montana Rail Link freight train about to
cross over it.
Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club
As my dad is a member, and this was the first time I'd seen the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's new layout in some time, it got the bulk of the pictures.
Farm
scene and the trestle on the branch line.
Closeup
of the farm scene.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
U28B #281 leads a freight train past the farm.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
U28B
#281 emerges from a tunnel with a freight train.
An
Longview, Kelso & Rainier freight train passing the yard.
Closeup
of the depot.
The Engine Terminal,
with unusually empty fuel racks and enginehouse.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
GP40-2 #301 & GP60 #360 (apparently undergoing some dynamic brake
work) with Electro-Motive Division GP60 Demonstrator #5 in the engine terminal.
Electro-Motive
Division
GP60 Demonstrator #5 in the engine terminal.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
SW1000 #100 switching in the yard.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
Jordan Spreader #100
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
wide-vision caboose #41 on the caboose track.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
40' Boxcar #60382 at the freight station in the industrial park.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier
GP60 #360 leads a freight train through a tunnel as it passes another
freight train.
Also See:
2007 LK&R Train Show & Swap Meet
2007 Three Rivers Mall Model Train Show
2007 World's Greatest Hobby on Tour
2006 LK&R Train Show & Swap Meet
2006 Great American Train Show
2000 Great American Train Show
1998 Great American Train Show
Longview, Kelso & Rainier: Current Layout
Longview, Kelso & Rainier: Old Layout
Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club
Corvallis Society of Model Engineers
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