This was our first show at White’s Nursery where we did not set up in the glass house. The shows our train club does here are a bit different in that each member has a different area to set up in, whereas at the larger shows members may do a layout within the confines of the larger display area. We always enjoyed using the floor in the glass house as it gave more flexibility in our layouts as opposed to using the display tables in the main garden center that limit you to a basic oval. This year the glass house was not available but the ever accommodating staff at White’s cleared out this area for us.
The decoration for this layout used our ever expanding Candyland geegaws and the jelly bean laden railtruck leaves the mine on a circular track controlled by a shuttle system. Once it reaches the unloading dock it stops, pauses and reverses course back to the mine.
We also brought along our “World’s Smallest Model Train” layout. I don’t know if it really is the smallest, but it sounds good. The train is run by a linear induction drive and it is about 1:1000 scale.
Dismal Creek Railroad 