I went to my first train show and swap, ever. It was the Granite City Train Show in St. Cloud, Minnesota. There were some nicely done modular layouts. One O scale layout that was very impressive. The Armory’s floor was filled wall to wall with model train stuff, almost everything that was ever available was for sale, some real antiques, even! Was sort of amazed at the amount of attention given to Great Northern stuff there.
Brought my 31 year old son with and we both thought his one and half year old son would have enjoyed seeing all the trains running!
I picked up a couple of Northern Pacific freight cars from Roundhouse and Accurail at great prices. I will be going again next year!