Paul & Pat WAGNER
held the February meet for the Southwest Division.The
The WAGNER's had
a great turnout for a beautiful afternoon gathering. 34 people
took in
all the trains and food for the day.
Although this layout is a single
200’ loop formed into a long folded “dogbone”, Paul and his guests had
four
trains dodging each other and running for cover in and out the 4 spur
sidings.Controlled by Aristocraft Train
Engineer throttles, both battery power and track power were combined to
provide
independent control of trains.Gene Staggs
built the battery and engine control cars and provided the Train
Engineer
equipment.
Rolling stock included 1:29 scale steam
engines and heavyweight passenger cars in Crescent Limited livery, in
addition
to a peddler freight and a mile long ore train, headed by Frank Schlee’sMallet, complete with enough sound and smoke
to bring the neighbors running.A Kalamazoo
woodburner also
made an occasional excursion run.
After an outrageous pot-luck
dinner, Gene Staggs did a seminar about experiences with his first
attempt at
fine scale scratch building. Gene, along
with several others under the tutelage of one of our more experienced
members,
Jack Ziegler, built a bobber caboose using stripwood, and a large
assortment of
metal detail parts. Gene displayed
several examples of their work. There
was plenty of great food items
and the raffle prizes were
abundant!
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