On Sunday 28th April I went to a show put on by the NMRA British Region, and in particular I suspect the Black Diamonds sub group at Weston On Trent Derbyshire. Their speciality seems to be creating modular layouts where the track comes off the boards at agreed points, and having built say 2-5 boards each, they meet up, join them all up and run looong trains on big layouts.....
Mainly N and OO/HO with a bit of On30. I didn't have a good camera with me (only my mobile phone - which I'd discovered is pretty poor indoors in poor lighting) so limited photos... There was one On30 layout - loosely based around logging and water transport that I thought I might get some pictures of.
This is the blurry one I'm afraid as I failed to get a view of the whole layout - but it serves as inspiration.
This s the wagon ferry on the lower right.
This is the roundhouse on the left.
There were some trade stands and I could easily have spent a large sum of money on DCC On30 American stuff. There was however, what I consider to be a bargain...
The locomotive part from a Bachman Short Line Railroad set. OK, so there's no power pack, controller or oval of steel track - when RRP is around £150, but this was £50 for the loco and rolling stock. There is a cylinder missing and as a child's toy then it doesn't have the detail of other models. However, I feel (as do others) it has a certain charm, and at £50 was worth it for the coaches alone. With original plans to perhaps convert the loco and detail it up, circumstances may mean that it gets a nameplate and chipped as is.
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