WGH on Tour Saint Louis 2005
 
 
A photo album from the Saint Louis World's Greatest Hobby On Tour show on January 8th and 9th, 2005.
 
   


The WGH show in Saint Louis on January 8th an 9th was well attended.
This is the Mississippi Valley N Scalers NTRAK setup. I'm a member.
Here Paul Conrad is manning one of the corners of the layout.
Here I am "adjusting" my train.
Here come my autoracks.
Here Jeff Coffelt and his son are over-seeing yard operations.
The club T module. The BN passenger train was parked there during the show.
My autoracks, and Ali Shahriary's BN freight pass.
A three way meet that looks like a four way. The two BNSF locos are parked.
Lots of traffic on the MVNS NTRAK. Here a 3 way meet occurs in front of a fair.
Jerry Prott's custom painted locos.
Ali Shariary and Wayne Burling are very proud of their engine terminal.
My trains, my camera, what else do you think I'm going to take pictures of?
The Pennslyvania Railroad lives on, long live the king! (for Glenn)
Our yard is 5 modules in length.
Gotta love the warbonnet. I'm the BNSF with an SF twist modeller.
Saint Louis has two NTRAK clubs, here is the Gateway NTRAK folks.
Different clubs set up their yards differently.
Looks like mom and the girls are on crew break here in the Gateway lounge.
This is Gateway's famous Tornado module.
These modules were featured in Model Railroader.
Here's a little better head on view of the tornado, but now its just a storm.
Tornado Junior? Kevin Avery mans the Gateway NTRAK's T-TRAK setup.
Gateway's T-TRAK modules.
It's a neat and small setup. The track is all Kato Unitrack, bullet proof!
The Decatur, Mt. Zion, and Southern's HO modular setup.
Western roads are well represented on this side of the Mississippi river.
I liked this Union Pacific passenger train, and waited for it to round the bend
Legos, St. Louis Arch, and Santa Fe. What more could I say?
The kids sure enjoyed this layout!
I didn't catch the name of this HO layout.
I thought I took a picture of the front of that sign, but alas I didn't.
I liked their setup as well. But heck, its trains, what's not to like?
Big Trains! You should've seen the line of parents and childer waiting to bo...
A nice G scale layout. I like how they even layed down grass and scenery.
This second G Scale layout even featured catenary.
Thomas the Tank Engine What's a train show with out Thomas?
The show folks even thoughtfully provided chairs for the parents.
There were lots of vendors at the show selling everything from Z to G!
The Woodland Scenics folks had a nice booth and provide demonstrations.
The folks from Kato came down from Chicago to show off their latest offerings.
The DI folks came down, and I got to see their prototype of the N Scale Maxi-III
NMRA Raffle layout - The Gateway division is building this HO scale layout.
Many of my friends; John Schindler, Mike Satke, Brian Post, and Doug Stahl.