This year my wife and I took in the full N Scale Convention. In this video, I'm covering footage of events at the Nugget Casino & Resort Hotel where the convention took place. I hope you enjoy my coverage of the convention. ~Tony
I got there by accident on Saturday on my way to Elko,NV. Got stuck there the entire day. Didn't make it to Elko that day. Met some awesome people. I will definitely become a member when I come back from my trip.
Thank you Tony. I did enjoy this recap. I even saw my self a few times in this video. Also I enjoyed the few time we bumped into each other. One of those time was when you and your wife got on the Elevator. How to see more of you in the future.
Glad you enjoyed the recap video. Yes, the convention was a great time and I'm glad we could finally meet to put and name and face together. Keep up the work on you railroad. ~Tony
Love these layouts! When I first saw the G2 Gatorade bottle on the desert layout, I thought it was the Baker thermometer. (The big oversized thermometer out in Baker California that shows how hot it is)
Hello Sean, No problem at all, as your display is definitely worthy to be shown off to others. Summer has been good since the convention, hot, but good. I hope the same is true for you as well. ~Tony
Yes, the Free-Mo groups that pulled together had a massive layout run when they were put together. A lot of beautiful layouts were present and a lot of talent. ~Tony
Hi there, I finally got a chance to comment on your video. It really captured the fun of the N Scale Convntion and really brought back some great memories for me. I was there at the Reno convention last year (only from Friday to Sunday due to work), but I still had a GREAT time. The burgers at that restaurant inside the casino were great! I'm glad you were able to explore the area around Reno, and hope you also made it up to Lake Tahoe. Your trip to California looked great and I recognized many of the locales in your videos of California. I especially enjoyed your drive down the Eastern Sierra and the photos you took from the Hwy 395 rest stop a few miles north of the town of Mammoth Lakes (my wife and I got married in Mammoth Lakes). I'm not going to be able to attend this years convention in Bethlehem PA, but I hope you are able to. If you do go please shoot some videos of it. Many thanks again!
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing. Glad that you took some time to go visit parks around the area as well. Such beautiful country. So...were those YOUR Rock Island F2As operating on one of the layouts? Sometimes, if you ask nicely, people will let you operate. I recall fondly running my M&StL SD7s after converting them to DCC/Sound at one of the conventions. Hope to see you next year in PA!
Hello Sean! No the Rock Island F2As were not mine that I filmed on one of the module layouts. However, I have two sets of them on my own layout. The layouts in Reno were open to letting people run their own items if there was space. The Free Mo layout had several trains running at one time which was great to see. ~Tony
Hello Dillion, I know the night of the banquet dinner was very busy, I wish it would have worked out to say, "Hi." I agree with you the N Scale Convention is a great gathering. I'm already looking, hoping, and planning that Bethlehem will be a possibility for 2024. ~Tony
Thanks for the tip and by that.I mean finger tip in the bottom right hand corner. I'm glad to see.I'm not the only one who does this. 😂 Other than that excellent video! In some videos, guys chase trains and you don't actually get to see the track or scenery. But even though you sped it up, it was still at the perfect speed To take everything in. Well shot and if you want to see a section for a longer period of time you can always hit pause😎 ( Please, please excuse grammar and punctuation.I use voice to text. And my tablet. Sometimes Thanks it knows better than I do what I want to text l o l
Hello Mike, It was a very nice convention with many activities planned throughout the week. It was also nice to meet up with some old friends and make some new ones throughout the week as well. ~Tony
I remember going to a model train show at the local mall.. Guy asks me , what track do you run at home ?. I stood there baffled that someone would ask that , So i said to him i run H.O , He smirks and says proudly , Heavly over rated ! I walked away lol.
N scale is expensive WOW But gives you more to work with I have a bedroom I want to start my N scale layout but I have only enough room on a sheet of think plywood the size of a California King size bed I want to have a small yard with some sidings for grain and maybe a few railroad crossings that light up does anybody have a idea 💡 of How much would it cost to make a layout like this maybe with 40 to 50 rolling stock and 10 to 15 Locomotives no Dash 9 or SD70M there are everywhere you look on America's railroad network they rule the rails 4,400 horse power that's the reason Railroads use them and there resilience of not breaking down that much but I hate them I love old locomotives Dash 8 B 40 C40 6 Axel SD7 GP40s GP38s SD40s SD45s SD60s are my all time favorite and the C40 6 Axel locomotives and the GP9 and some nice Alcos. Does anybody have any idea of layout plans I could do or the price this would cost me ball park?
You could still do a lot in the space you are talking about. Even if you had to rotate cars and engine on and off the layout, or had hidden storage tracks. Keep in mind in this hobby you can keep buying and collecting to add to the items you would like /want on a layout. Tony
Oh yes. I came home with a few items for my layout and many detail parts I had been looking for. I did have a spreadsheet of items I was looking for, for myself and some of my N-scale friends. ~Tony
I love it but he needed an airport. Not a big one but one with one airplane. If he is modeling St Louis or Kansas City, a TWA plane in 1/144 would suffice. New York would be TWA, Pan Am or Eastern. Atlanta its obviously, Delta (Americana as it gets, Delta and Coca Cola, Atlanta), Chicago United, Miami Pan Am or Eastern, Dallas would be American and Pepsi almost as Americana as Atlanta, and Los Angeles, TWA, Western or United. Depending on the era also, the airlines and type of airplane can change and there is a wide variety of them all in 1/144 scale which is the closest to n scale in this case. For example if its 1990s LA, instead of a Western DC-3 you'd get a Delta L-1011 since Delta bought Western in 1987. Miniatur Wonderland has a huge airport in n scale including a UPS Boeing 767 and a flying Lufthansa Airbus A380..and I love that layout too!
