Contest room photos #1

This is a replay of the Contest entries I posted a couple days ago.

On with the models, and other things.

 
Caption: The Walt Disney World locomotive set

A Lego locomotive may get a plaque in the contest this year - along with this beautiful representation of SP&S 700, there were at least three or four other Lego steam locomotives (incuding a Shay, Heisler, and Climax) and two Lego diesel locomotives. 

 
These should be recognizable to some MRH/RE readers... 

Contest room photos #2

Rerun from Monday:

One of the early entries was this train celebrating the Golden Spike's Centennial complete with a couple of accessories -

 
Caption: Golden Spike Centennial Train

 
Caption: Golden Spike Centennial Train accessories

 
Caption: The Golden Spike

 
Caption: The Last Laid Rail

Thanks Jeff

Great coverage and thanks for doing the video on BurleyJims merry go round. I appreciate you honoring my request.

Tom

Contest room photos #3

Contest room photos #4

Note: I could have done an entire photo essay on the Starr Creek Sawmill.
I'd love to see it's creator submit an article on it's construction. 

More of that Lego SP&S 700...

Great photos Jeff

Thanks for the photos and your coverage of the convention.

Structures...

These two are odd to me for different reasons. The sawmill looks great, but why or why do people always want to model sawmills with no roof in place? Yeah, it's to show the interior but they wouldn't be running them without a roof. Having seen many such sawmills in use, I get tired of seeing them shown without roofs in place. And as for the store, there are a few odd things:

• The wooden Indian is blocking people from coming in and out easily as well as traffic going past, as it's right in the center of the walkway.
• And has for traffic going past, note the drop to the left. No stairs and the walkway goes right off a ankle-breaking drop of a few feet. In real life, there would be a railing preventing people from walking further, or stairs there.
• Look at the roof over the walkway, it looks level to me. That wouldn't do well for the shingles or rain runoff.

An otherwise fine structure model built very oddly...

Thanks

Great coverage of the meet Jeff.  Thanks for sharing.

There's more to come!

I've got a lot more photos coming, I'm just trying to make it to bed at a reasonable hour... 

Back to the contest room

Okay, I've got the layouts and other NTS photos out of the way... I think. So time to work on more of the contest room photos! 

Note: This is probably somewhat overexposed. It wasn't that bright in reality.  

Next up: Some very unusual locomotives.... 

Locomotives

This year I saw what I think is a first - Lego locomotives entered into both the Diesel and Steam Locomotive categories of the contest. I'd be interested in knowing how they were judged... 

 This is N scale, folks - 
   

 This is not N scale.... 
 

 I love the X on the < scratchout> & fit plastic line... 
  

Lego

Wow, those Lego locomotives are very impressive. That SP&S GP was very well done, I didn't notice it was a Lego creation at first glance!

P51

....neither did I.  

All I can say is ........I'm

All I can say is ........I'm glad I didn't make the trip and go  Lego's in the contest room????

Continuing the contest room

Time for some traction - 

I have some personal issues with taking photos of the contest photos, so I'm shooting them in bulk more as documentation that there were quite a few there.

Not sure where these two photos fit in... 

A couple more passes:

....and that's it, I think. I believe I am done with the photo-documentation of the 2019 NMRA Convention and National Train Show in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The last photo

Say hello to the 2019 SLC National Train Show Model Railroad Hobbyist Crew:

(L-R): Patty Fugate, Laura Shultz, Joe Fugate, Eric Hansmann, Jeff Shultz

"..and that's it, I think. I

   Thanks Jeff.   Wow that was a mixed bag.  :> )   .....DaveB 

LOVE it!

I love the silly! The silly is just one of the things that makes this the greatest hobby in the world!

Tribute

The SPC car based on Boone Morrison’s articles is very well done and a nice tribute to his memory. 

To the MRH Crew

 Great job!!!  Thanks!  That effort took a lot of time!!!

Nick

Contests...

That's kind of sad, because I think there's always something you can learn, no matter what someone did for their modeling.

I know plenty of people who don't give a second look at other scales, prototypes and many refuse to look at models for foreign (as in other countries, not other RR's) themed models. There is no limit to what you might learn from someone else's work.

There is some really impressive Lego work going on these days. I was never into Legos as a kid and really not so much even now (though I loved the Lego movie) but I've been very impressed with some of the Lego RR stuff I've seen at shows in recent years...

 "there's

Can you think of anything about a lego engine model that might be useful to a scale modeler(other than using lego parts for occasional projects) ? ......DaveB

Thanks

Jeff and the rest of the MRH Crew, good show.

Tom

@DaveB

A Lego engine model might inform you about a prototype that you didn't know existed, but the presence of these models at NMRA events is more about inclusion in a big tent and information flow the opposite ways--from scale modelers to Lego people. The NMRA Board of Directors has "agreed that L-Gauge, as it is called by its fans, is an exciting pathway to scale model railroading and a real asset at the National Train Show and other train shows. Youngsters especially are enthralled and the skill involved can be amazing. We hope to see an enhanced presence of L-gauge in the NMRA as a SIG." (Statement following 2014 winter Board of Directors meeting.) So one way to view the presence of Lego models is: what are the things that we as scale modelers can give back to Lego modelers, and get them involved in scale modeling?