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Triangle Mall
For many years, the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club put on model train shows at the Triangle Mall in Longview, Washington. These shows were usually held in November, and additional shows were held in the spring of some years, usually in February. Here are pictures from some of these shows.
1994
Sawmill and Mountain Pine Lumber locomotives on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. (Photo by Cliff West)
Burlington
Northern SD45 #6430 "Hustle Muscle" and other Burlington Northern
locomotives in the engine terminal on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. (Photo by Cliff West)
Sawmill
section of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale
layout, with the farm in the foreground and the yard in the background.
(Photo by Cliff West)
November 1995
Closeup
of the log cars and the log loader at the logging camp at the end of the
logging line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Great Northern U28B in the simplified Omaha orange and Pullman green
paint scheme and in the background a Great Northern SD45 in Big Sky Blue
outside the enginehouse on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad
Club's HO-scale layout.
This
small but highly detailed N-scale layout was displayed by a husband and
wife who came to the Triangle Mall show several times. As I recall, the
layout was split down the middle by a backdrop with different scenes on
each side. This city scene was on one side.
Here
is another view of the town scene on the same small N-scale layout.
This
small HO-scale layout by Lyle
Noah featured many of his scratchbuilt structures and vehicles, and
railroad equipment lettered for his freelanced Pacific Northern
Railroad.
Ron
Harmon's HO-scale display diorama showing his scratchbuilt and kitbashed
maintenance of way equipment.
The
city scene with operating trolley on Bob
Delaney's half of the HO-scale layout shared with Bob Hanson.
A
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Alco FA pulls a passenger train on the Columbia
& Cowlitz Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
I
think this engine terminal with a turntable and two roundhouses,
occupied by various steam locomotives and a Union Pacific DDA40X, is on
the Pacific Northwest Modular Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Here
is a group of trains, including two freight trains and a steam-powered
Great Northern heavyweight passenger train, on what I think is the
Pacific Northwest Modular Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Stepping
back we can see the steam-powered Great Northern heavyweight passenger
train and a Union Pacific streamlined passenger train powered by a
4-8-8-4 Big Boy at the large passenger depot on what I think is the
Pacific Northwest Modular Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Spring 1997
An
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Dash 8-40CW in red and silver Warbonnet
colors rests in the engine terminal with a Union Pacific (former
Missouri Pacific) GP40 and GP50 on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model
Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
The
logging camp at the end of the logging line on the Longview, Kelso &
Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Union
Pacific locomotives with a fuel tender pass through the town, which
includes Hanley's Sentry Market and Rambo's Hobbies, on the Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
double-stack train passes the
other end of the town on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad
Club's HO-scale layout.
Mountain
Pine Lumber switchers work the
sawmill as another train passes by on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale
layout.
I
don't remember whose small HO-scale layout this was, but it was highly
detailed and I think it was split down the middle by a backdrop with a
different scene on each side.
The
other side of the same HO-scale layout featured a detailed city scene.
I
don't remember anything about this narrow gauge old-time mining diorama,
but it appears to be HOn30 gauge.
A
live-steam locomotive on display. I don't remember who was displaying
it, but it might have been the Kitsap Live Steamers.
Ron
Harmon's HO-scale display diorama showing his scratchbuilt and kitbashed
maintenance of way equipment.
This
Lego layout consisted of various Lego sets and track set up on a group
of folding tables.
November 1997
A
trio of Union Pacific SD40-2s pull a unit iron ore train through the
expanded town on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Union
Pacific locomotives dominate the engine terminal while the Union Pacific
ore train passes on the main line and a Burlington Northern coal train
passes on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model
Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
The
trio of Mountain Pine Lumber switchers brings the excursion train back
to the sawmill on the logging line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Southern
Pacific GP9s pull a Piggyback TOFC train on the main line alongside a
steam-powered freight on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso &
Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Shay is charge of the tourists on the logging line while a heavyweight
passenger train passes on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
pair of Great Northern GP9s in the simplified Omaha orange and Pullman
green paint scheme pull a freight train past the sawmill on the branch
line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale
layout.
One
of three HO-scale logging dioramas that I believe were made by Lyle
Noah. This scene features small skidders and trucks.
This
HO-scale logging diorama, presumably by Lyle Noah, features an
old-fashioned steam skidder.
This
HO-scale logging diorama, presumably by Lyle Noah, features a modern
tower yarder, loader and log trucks.
I
don't remember anything about this small layout. It appears to be
N-scale and features a number of scratchbuilt items that may have been
made by Lyle Noah.
Spring 1999
A
lone Milwaukee Road switcher breaks up what would otherwise be Union
Pacific dominance in the engine terminal of the Longview, Kelso &
Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Union
Pacific gas-turbine locomotive #51 rests in the yard on the Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Union
Pacific AS-616 #1265 in the caboose track of the yard on the
Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Union
Pacific GP20s with a freight train on the branch line on the Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Union Pacific triple-unit gas-turbine locomotive passes through the town
with a freight train on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Union Pacific U50C with a freight train on the main line passes the
triple-unit turbine in the yard on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model
Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
Spring 2000
A
Union Pacific SD40-2 and GP35 pull a freight train through the town on
the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Union Pacific iron ore train on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso &
Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
trio of Union Pacific GP7s pull a freight train on the branch line on
the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
The
Union Pacific iron ore train is now on the main line on the Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
The
farm, lit by sunlight from a skylight, on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
4-6-2 pulls a heavyweight passenger train on the main line past a
Southern Pacific cab-forward in the yard on the Longview, Kelso &
Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
pair of Western Pacific Alco switchers pull log cars on the logging line
on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
A
Western Pacific SW1 brings a load of logs down the logging line on the
Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.
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
2005 Great American Train Show
2000 Great American Train Show
1998 Great American Train Show
Longview, Kelso & Rainier: Current Layout
Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club
Corvallis Society of Model Engineers
Longview, Kelso & Rainier: Old Layout
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