Athearn's SD60E

Athearn was just around the corner, so I sort of used them to work in how I was going to shoot (a lot of the early shots used either an LED light panel mounted to my camera or a flash). Here's the Norfolk Southern Honoring our Veteran's SD60E:

Roco/Fleischmann

European prototypes, for all they are built to do essentially the same job as the American ones, are incredibly different in appearance, all are HO:

This is a Class E60 electric switch engine from Germany in the Fleischmann line (for now):

A French SNCF BB 26000 class electric locomotive from Roco:
 

Another new German locomotive from Roco, the Class 152 electric locomotive, DB Epoch IV:

MTH

One of the GP38-2 models you don't hear about much is from MTH:

Marklin UP 4-6-6-4 Challenger

Marklin just announced a Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger, which they described as "even more detailed than our Big Boy."

Next time I need to take some white or gray cardstock as a background, since it is quite cluttered in these photos.

A bit more SD40T-2 action from ScaleTrains.com... and a C39-8

The SD40T-2 was owned by two railroads, although you might miss that fact if you are talking to Southern Pacific  fans...

And just because they look so pretty together....

Oh yeah, ScaleTrains.com has another locomotive coming out too... the C39-8

ExactRail

Let's see if I can get a little better (or at least less rushed) photo of the GSI Bulkhead Flats (HO), the Jonestown Autoflood II hoppers (N), and the Gunderson 7466 wood chip gondola (HO):

Those 7466's sure would look good behind a set of SD40T-2s.... anyone's SD40T-2s...

American Z Lines

American Z Lines brought along a sample of it's ES44 locomotive in the appropriate KCS of Mexico paint scheme:

Bowser

Much has been made of the fact that Bowser was using the AFFA factory that closed in China, but frankly they don't appear to be very concerned about it. They had a wide display (seen earlier) of some of the many variations of the RS3's that they will be making. There are differences due to dynamic brakes or not, various positioning of grills (in one case apparently because the railroad's name on the paint scheme would go through the grills in their normal location), different steps, different fuel tanks... take a look at some of them:

Peco track

I discussed Peco's Unifrog products with the gentleman from Peco who was at the show (and he was happy to inform me that all of Peco's products are designed, tooled and made in Devon, England), and when I wondered why I didn't see more of them, he said that since they didn't want to confuse people further (apparently the ElectroFrog vs. Insulfrog is doing a good job of that) they are only replacing products with the Unifrog design as the current ones wear out.

They are also prepared to fill any needs in the market created by Shinohara's departure:

Walthers

As noted before, Walthers introduced quite a few products at the National Train Show, across all of their product lines:

The full up painted Thrall Rebuilt 40' well cars in HO scale were at the show:

As were the first test shot of the newly tooled 5-unit articulated Thrall well cars:

Then there are the Zombies, fresh from a certain Walthers employee's Walking Dead thing (and due just in time for Halloween):

Also newly announced and on the scene were the 20' smooth side containers and several versions of the 60' Pullman-Standard flatcar (the underframe is the same, but they come with multiple deck versions):

I thought this new International® 7600 Crew-Cab Open Brush Fire Truck was pretty neat, since we've been seeing a lot of them, or similar trucks, in the news a lot lately. I'm sure someone is researching a Forestry Dept. fire truck scheme for them:

A bit better photo of the recently announced coal dock:

The newly announced Cornerstone Cross-Deck Truck facility:
 

A new set of loading ramps, due out soon:

A really large traveling crane model:

And finishing off HO Cornerstone, while it was announced a while back, this multi-piece modern gas station is nice to see arranged as a single facility:
 

While Walthers sold their N scale locomotive and rolling stock lines to Atlas, they brought some reminders that they will be continuing to produce N scale Cornerstone products:

Praire Co-Op Elevator:

Two stall 130' Brick Diesel House:

Central Beverage Distributors:

That's it for right now - I need to edit more photos. Only about 1000 left.... (lots and lots of modules in HO, N, Z, Lego, and probably some other scale or two I don't remember)

Whoops - just found I missed (at least) one from Walthers, the HO scale Modern Shopping Center 2 -

Jeff. Thanks for all of the

Jeff. Thanks for all of the updates these past few days. Much appreciated. 

How do do you think the attendance was this year?

Attendance

To put it simply: Attendance was poor. If it reached 15,000, it would amaze me.

Yep slow and lackluster

Convention timing...

I guess it’s tradition,and probably has been considered in the past,but is the summer the optimal time for a convention if one is looking to draw in the public? It just seems there are far too many good weather activities to compete with. The shows that seem to be most popular seem to mostly be in colder climate locations at times of the year when people are looking for ways to counter cabin fever. I’ll use Trainfest in Milwaukee,the Springfield show,and Tinmonium as examples. 

Tom

FANTASTIC!

Wish I were there!

Thanks Jeff for

taking all those shots of the new RS-3 from Bowser.  Especially the one inside with the decoder.  You've made all of us feel like we're at the show with you. That picture answered a lot of my questions.  I have one on preorder. 

Was the convention itself

Was the convention itself similarly poorly attended?

Convention was typical

That low?

Are we talking under 10,000? Supposedly in Orlando they had over 10,000. If you're telling me they didn't have more than 1000 people paid attending the National Train Show that sounds more like a disaster! I know NMRA convention attendees get in free, but that sounds real low. 

Neal

Come back to Florida !!

Come back to Florida !!

Joe you were in a bad location.

I completely missed the MRH booth on my first pass. You were located across from the large B&B tool booth, and on the back side of your booth area where you could not bee seen directly from the outer isle. I locked onto the tool booth and never managed to turn around and see you.

Curious, what was Florida attendance

Does anybody know what the NTS and convention totals were for the Florida convention.

I know I specifically gave Florida a miss, but curious if Florida was a really big draw.

Regards,

GNNPNUT

Thanks for the photos what’s

Thanks for the photos what’s the price point on the walthers coal trestle?

Convention not train show numbers

two different things