On Saturday, I attended the November Strasburg EOS Show. It was another fine show, will attended by both table holders and attendees. It’s nice to see this show continue to grow. I was able to move some more of my models that do not fit my current modeling direction.
Not that much new since the Cleveland show to report. Rich Yoder did have another display model on his table of another Mather boxcar. This was the smaller height car as seen in these photos below.
Yesterday, the Cleveland O Scale Show was held in Kirkland, OH. This show was even better than last year. The attendance appeared to be up over last year and was steady throughout the day.
The hit of the show was the Indianapolis P48 Association Portable P48 Layout. There were a lot of kids of all ages stopping and watching the action on the railroad.
The rest of the room had something for everybody, new models, used models, sample models from a few dealers, parts, paints… just about anything you could think of.
Rich Yoder had samples on his tables of his soon to be delivered Ventilated Boxcar run.
Many of the variations of this run of cars.
ACL car in one of the early paint schemes.
The C&O boxcar version.
He also had a representative model of his newly announced Mather car project. The project will include the regular height and extended height boxcars, stock cars and a reefer. Reservations are beginning and the models are due the Fall of 2015. Rich should have materials on this project on his website this week.
Rich was showing samples of his soon to be released Fox trucks.
Rich had a sample of a new PRR 2D-F8 50 ton truck. The sample had new ribbed back wheels and polished treads. He says this is how the new run of these trucks are going to come in. You’ll like the new look.
Bob Hiel had samples of the soon to be released Sunset 3rd Rail’s GM’s “TRAIN OF TOMORROW”. It is a fine looking model. Too early for my 1952 modeling era, but very nicely done. I have seen photos of this train at the Reading Trenton Passenger Station. So it did make it onto the Reading Railroad, not sure how many places it was displayed.
Bob also had a sample of the PRR P70FAR from Golden Gate Depot Model Trains.
Finally, here are some more images of the Indianapolis P48 Association Portable P48 Layout. It’s not the biggest layout but it ran great during the day. The curves are tight but that is what’s needed sometimes. It is a great example of how Proto48 can work in smaller spaces.
The GP-9 in the photo is a stock Red Caboose model with the original drive. It ran nice, slow and steady all day long.
