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Rochester Area S-Gaugers at Toy Train Collectors Society 2011 Shamrock Show
Rochester Area S-Gaugers, Rochester, NY

Toy Train Collectors Society 2011 Shamrock Show
at
Diplomat Banquet Center

The Rochester Area S-Gaugers have been invited to show our modular layout at the semi-annual TTCS shows for at least a dozen years at various venues. For this show we set up the modular layout in its ten foot by twenty foot configuration.

Show Highlights
There was a good turn out for the Thanksgiving TTCS show at the Diplomat Party Center, so we took a few minutes at the completion of the layout set up for the group shot below.
The photos of this event were supplied by Roger Delthony and Bill Johnson edited them for the internet.
Group picture of those in attendance at the 2010 Thanksgiving TTCS Show.
Group picture of those in attendance at the 2010 Thanksgiving TTCS Show. From left to right, Dave Daniel, George Cole, Chuck Smith, Roger Delthony and Bill Johnson.
A construction site built with Erector Set parts was set up on one of the modular layout's corner modules.
A construction site built with Erector Set parts was set up on one of the modular layout's corner modules.
 The passengers on this Amtrak train get a peek at the American Flyer Circus they go by.
The passengers on this Amtrak train get a peek at the American Flyer Circus they go by.
The circus train is passing below the Rochester Area S-Gaugers banner.
The circus train is passing below the Rochester Area S-Gaugers banner.
 The end yard module and the passing side track make up this scene on the modular layout.
The end yard module and the passing side track make up this scene on the modular layout.
Dave Daniel takes a turn monitoring the accessory modules
Dave Daniel takes a turn monitoring the accessory modules.
 George Cole takes a turn monitoring the accessory modules.
George Cole takes a turn monitoring
the accessory modules.
Chuck Smith (left) watches as a young visitor operates the log loader accessory.<br>George Cole (right) is reloading planks into the sawmill.
Chuck Smith (left) watches as a young visitor operates the log loader accessory.
George Cole (right) is reloading planks into the sawmill.
The yellow boxes seen in the photo above outline access holes in the plexiglas shield to push buttons that visitors (See photos on the left.) use to operate the accessories.

The action cars and accessories on the layout are a big hit with our guests, as they can watch as a rocket is launched from a club-owned American Flyer rocket car (a great crowd pleaser), a log loader accessory that loads logs into the operating log car which dumps them into a log pond next to an operating sawmill. The sawmill then loads finished lumber into a gondola and there is a K-Line barrel loader accessory that loads barrels into a gondola.
The freight train in this photo shares the inner main with the circus train in the photo above.
The freight train in this photo shares the inner main with the circus train in the photo above.
Roger Delthony designed and installed a block system on the inner loop of the modular layout that enables two trains to share the same track.
(See the caption on the photo at the left.)

 

 
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