Large Scale Central

NTCGRR International Meet 2006

Conventions, Shows, Clubs and Get-Togethers
#1

I just got back yesterday from the big meet at Marty Cozad’s place and boy did I have some fun. Met a bunch of great guys too. Thought I would share some of the pix I took while there. There were lots of trains and lots of good food and lots of fun had at Marty’s. THANK YOU, Marty & Carrie!

I’ll start with JJ running his streamliner…at least I think that’s what he’s doing. Or maybe he’s praying to the train gods that he doesn’t get blamed for all the desasters for the weekend :smiley:

JJ and Jim Carter join forces for one loooooong Super Chief!

Since I do not run battery I had no locomotive to bring, so I put a 2 bay hopper and my caboose in my suitcase and brought that. Joe DiSanto was kind enough to allow me to put them on the end of his train. He’s got an SD45 on the point.

As stated above, I didn’t have a locomotive to bring, so I leased one from Golding Leasing LLC for the Sunday ops session. Dan Patterson lost a caboose in one of Marty’s tunnels. He backed into the tunnel to get it but kept on backing right through the tunnel and into my STOPPED locomotive. This incident, as well as a later one involving the same engineer has been turned over to my legal firm, Dewey, Cheatem & Howe! It wasn’t my fault…HONEST! :smiley: Ric, thanks for allowing me to operate your fine switcher. It was a real pleasure.

I tried my hand at some night photography. This is Jerry Barnes’ live steam Mike crossing Marty’s beautiful arch steel bridge.

The NTC Mill was also a popular place for night photography.

Eric Ogundipe, our resident Amtrak engineer is setting up to get a shot of the coal train.

Eric is also a master model builder. If you saw his article in Gartenbahn Profi on his SD45 you know what I mean. He’s now scratch building an SD70M-2. It was an absolutely fun weekend. Now, if I can just remember which face belongs to what nic. Warren

#2

Warren,

Good pictures.

Your welcome on the loan of the NW2.

Always great to put a face with a name.

Quite the weekend. If you look, Marty has already started modifications.

#3

Oh, to be a young boy full of energy again. That’s the real part of Marty I envy. But I guess I’ll just have to be happy with being part of the Geezer Guage Society… :smiley: I’m looking forward to seeing all the changes next year…and having my own locomotive there to run. Really look forward to the ops session again too.

Warren

#4

Thanks for the pix…I was wonderin how the meet made out.
Looks like a good time was had by all…

#5

Now isn’t it a Good Thing that that little incident with the reversing train and the stopped locomotive didn’t happen on one of those nice HIGH bridges.

#6

Warren,
It was good meeting you this weekend. Thanks for the great pics. The mix of LS, NG, SG, steam, diesel all seemed to add to the fun. You could have taken a turn at the Streamliners if you had asked.
JimC.

#7

Hey nice pics!

#8

Chris, please don’t jinx me :smiley: I run regularly on a layout that has a bridge 12’ high. And yes I’ve seen 35 cars go off the thing one right behind the other… :frowning: Fortunately, so far, none have been mine.

Jim, it was also a privilege to have met you. It never even crossed my mind to interupt you and JJ…you 2 were just having too much fun. I did have plenty to run and enjoyed every minute of it.

CORRECTION: In the night picture of the Mike I identified it as Jerry Barnes live steamer when it’s actually Marty’s battery powered Mike. I didn’t see the regular battery car that was with those cars and assumed it was live steam. I forgot that Marty put his batteries in the tender.

Warren

#9

There are times when you’d rather have the couplers let go :smiley: