This show is usually very good value and normally takes over most of the college with various layouts spread through the different rooms and a steam ride-on railroad out in the car park. This years show seemed to be much smaller than usual so I'm not sure what happened, but it was certainly not as well stocked as previous years.
There was only a single US outline layout year in "13th Street Yard" a short end-to-end switching layout owned by John Baggaley.
There were a few second hand traders at the show and I picked up a couple of cheap unboxed high-nose Southern units from the bargain box at Brian's Trains. I suspect these may be the same locomotives I saw on his stand last year!
There was a massive display of Triang for sale, including the old battle space rocket train and missile car various other rarities.
The two engines I bought have both been 'weathered' by the previous owner using some rather heavy drybrushing and they really don't look any better for it. I will dry to remove the weathering and start from scratch, otherwise it will be a trip to the dunk tank and a repaint for these locomotives.
Atlas SD35 #3008 in Southern livery.
This model is from the Master series and is very nicely detailed with the usual Atlas quality and wire grab irons, pilot details, crew figures and underframe piping. A very nice model indeed.
Athearn RTR SD40-2 in Southern livery.
This is the re-tooled model based on the Railpower tooling, with factory thinwall cab and genesis style fuel tanks, wire grab irons, see-through fans and very crisp printing. The brass horns are a nice touch on this model.
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