Once again, the Georgia Garden Railway Society was the host club for the Southeastern Large Scale Train Show. The show didn't begin until Friday, February 16, but the club set up our layout and hosted the banquet on Thursday, February 15.
Randy Blackstone helps set up the club layout.
Richard Garlinghouse built a working waterfall for the layout.
Here's Richard working on the area above the waterfall and trestle.
Dave Bennett's animated sawmill is a popular part of the GGRS portable railway.
Another exceptional model is Hub Evan's station.
Bobby's garage is open for business.
Our layout is blessed with not one, but two sawmills.
An empty string of ore cars pass the small depot on the layout.
Here's a photo of the speeder shed beside the depot.
Joe Fotschky set up his live steam layout with help from other GGRS members.
R.J. Deberg took these shots of the steam layout.
The Sundance Central narrow gauge railroad from the Tampa Bay area set up their modular display again. The models on this layout are outstanding.
Here's the water tower and sand house.
There's a waterfall below the trestle...
...and a truck that has seen better days.
Time to fire up the donkey engine.
Twenty cents a gallon??? Outrageous!
I think I bought a bologna sandwich and a Nehi here once for a quarter.
Looks like they've had this MOW equipment for a while.
With all the bridges and trestles on the Sundance Central, they need a good pile-driver.
It was already saggin' before they took off the trucks.
What's that they're welding at the speeder shed?
It's hard to get all the way through the woods without topping up the tender.
Two groups teamed up this year and set up a huge on-the-floor layout: the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club out of Milton, Florida, and the Tampa Bay Division of the Florida Garden Railway Society.
One of the features of the layout was a huge yard.
All that equipment takes a lot of electronics.
There were dozens of vendors at the SELSTS. Probably the largest display belonged to St. Aubin Station. It was set up as narrow aisles, making it difficult to photograph. Club members helped them set up and take down their moveable store. In appreciation, they donated an Aristocraft Mallet to the club. Very generous! Here are photos of some of the other vendor's displays and of some individuals who were doing demonstrations during the show.
Lawrence "Yogi" Wallace has a wonderful web site where he gives all kinds of tips on constructing structures for the garden railroad using foam, plastic sign board, metal, and other materials. He demonstrated many of his techniques at the show. Check out his Bellaire Depot on the Web.
Here's Bob Temper of the Gateway Garden Railway Society of Greater St. Louis demonstrating figure-making techniques.
That's Lewis Polk on the left, "Mister Aristocraft". The SELSTS is his show.
Southeastern Trains, owned by GGRS member Jim Matthews, had a prominent display.
Colorado Model Structures has a range of plastic kits.
Here's a close-up of one of the assembled Colorado Model Structures kits.
Michael's Custom Woodworks offered both complete buildings and "fronts".
Precision Products displayed its veneer sheets used for building construction.
Rail Rite makes a neat product for putting your cars on the rails quickly and easily.
Frank and Ann Pac create and sell detailed resin building kits.
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