Andy C. and I headed to Indianapolis today to attend the 17th Annual National Toy Truck’n Construction Show. Well, here’s a new hobby I didn’t know about.
Quite interesting!
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Especially look at the photo section.
They had a good size layout setup on the floor of the ballroom of the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Most of the equipment was 1:16, but all scales were represented.
Yes, there was a railroad. They used Bachmann 45 tonners with the cab raised about an inch to represent 1:16 scale equipment and LGB dumping cars. R/C trucks were loaded with coal and lumber by R/C loaders and moved to a dump area around a layout made up of roads on roofing paper. The coal was ground rubber. The logs were logs. There was a wharehouse that off loaded pallets of equipment from the wharehouses to the trucks and even R/C military tanks being loaded on to railroad flat cars that had there decks widened to 1:16.
Probably 12 R/C units working at one time.
The trains ran and did not even have the capability of going in a circle. 
LOts of fun. Next year the show will be August 22 - 24, 2008 at the same Adam’s Mark Hotel.
I’m sorry, I didn’t take my camera or video camera.
Picked up a couple of small items.