NMRA Spring Meet - Lawford, Essex

Today was the NMRA British Region Spring Meet, held in Lawford, Essex with the Thamesiders group.  The event was faily low-key, but there were a selection of layouts, and some traders in attendance.  I picked up a couple of unbuilt Rix smalltown USA buildings and a Walthers crossing overhead gantry, and I also picked up a very rough basket-case Athearn blue box GP50.

Layouts were the large Thamesiders Essex Belt Lines HO modular setup which was being used for 'run what you brung' sesssions, and Dan Spaldings excellent Grain Belt layout Galetia in HO.  There was also a display of Locomotives from Twin Falls Lumber on On30 (winner of the Mayor’s Cup at the NEC 2010 show) and a handful of how-to sessions on scenery and kit-building.

 Thamesiders Essex Belt Lines in HO

California Coast in Z scale by Dave Dawes (its final year!)

Galetia, KS by Dan Spalding in HO (excellent weathered freight cars and realistic operation).

An example of how to model realistic logging operations.