WGH '07, Portland, Oregon

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I attended the WGH show at the Portland Expo center yesterday (February 17th) and came away with about 50 photos and $65 worth of stuff…

First, let’s start with a couple of “overhead” shots:


As you can see, it appears that it is very well attended. There is a Hot Rod car show in another building on the Expo center property, so getting into the site and getting parked was pretty atrocious. Also not helping were multiple car wrecks on I-5 northbound, one right at the Expo Center exit.

Atlas didn’t have much new to show, but they did have the prototypes of the Ford Fairmont sedan and station wagon in HO and N scale:


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The Athearn booth probably had the most “NEW” stuff:

The F45/FP45 bodies (black photographs so well - not!):

More and detailed photos can be found at http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/WGH_07

The Ford F850 fire trucks made an appearance:

And the Model A’s and F100s:

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Athearn’s version of the UP “stealth” goof paint job:

And Norfolk Southern’s commonly seen Ghost/Stealth scheme:

RS Laserkits of Salem, OR had this comedic gem (although they claim to have heard of prototypes in Colorado where the first level gets snowed in):

The SP locomotive you can see through the bridge girders is a GP9… in Z scale. One of the club members is a design engineer at MicroTrains and brought this unreleased model along for the show. Wish I’d gotten a better photo of it:

All in all, it was a great show and my feet were hurtin’ by the end of it.
All my photos, eventually with captions, can be found at http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/WGH_07

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Thanks for the post & the photos. Did Bachmann have a booth? There’s a big question on their website to see if all new product will have “dummy knucke couplers” to replace the Crapidos. THey also had just announced their first quarter plans.

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Jeff,

Thanks for the Portland WGH report. From the overhead pictures you posted, you guys had far more ample aisle space than the WGH show held in Pittsburgh. It was wall-to-wall people. Lotsa parents and kids - which was good to see.

Tom

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Bachmann did have a booth, with Thomas circling around one level of a layout. They had quite a selection of On30 stuff there, and a nice display of their HO locomotives as well.