I spent six very enjoyable days at the I Hobbies Expo last week (two days of set-up, four days of playing with trains.
I want to make a point of thanking Matt Jackson, John Pignatelli, and Ramon Garcia of AGHRS, as well as Glenn Passmore, Al Vierich, and the entire TTOS Layout Crew for assistance, above and beyond the call of duty with set up and, especially tear down.
We operate under the dual banners of the So Cal DCS Demonstration Team and The TCA Western Division Layout.
The I Hobbies Show was excellent. There were all manner of hobby products: Trains, R/C Airplanes, Helicopters, Ships, Cars, Rockets, Plastic Models, etc. R/C Planes and Helicopters were flown inside the building within a huge net.
On Friday I was honored to meet Charlie Nassau.
Truly a nice guy, and extremely knowledgeable. It was extremely interesting talking with him.
There were multiple layouts present. Here is the TTOS Southwestern Division Layout:
These guys are incredibly well organized and can build and disassemble this layout, with all of its accessories, in a few hours.
They were, by the way, running DCS (you knew I would work that in there…).
Here is a shot of the Lionel Layout, provided by Cal Hobby. It was, of course, running TMCC:
Here is a shot of the MTH Layout, provided by the So Cal DCS Demonstration Team:
Five loops of track, 10 PS-2 Engines Running in Command, 1 Lionel Engine running in TMCC Command through DCS, and one conventional.
Veiw of the front portion of the layout. The MTH Reproduction Airplane and Airport, as well as the