{"id":3492,"date":"2009-07-17T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2009-07-21T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:33:03","slug":"photos-from-the-nmra-contest-room-in-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the NMRA Contest Room in Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first batch of pictures from Hartford are of some of the fine models on display in the contest room.\u00a0 This is the same room where I set up the Bronx Terminal on Monday and operated it during the week.\u00a0 While technically the contest room, it really is a room for people to come and browse all the items on display and socialize.\u00a0 I had the layout here until we moved it down to the Train Show on Thursday right after the awards presentations.<\/p>\n

I’ll provide a bit of narrative for the models I know something about, the others are just images of some on display that caught my eye.<\/p>\n

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This fantastic HO scale model of a Howe Truss float bridge was built by Tom Griffiths.\u00a0 I received a set of drawings for this float bridge about a year ago and wondered who “T. Griffiths” was, as that was the name at the bottom of all 26 pages of hand drawn plans.\u00a0 This model was built by him.\u00a0 The drawings were made in the late 70’s early 80’s and according to Tom the model was started then.\u00a0 It sat for 35<\/span> 30 years until he finished it up last year.\u00a0 I know, I had to do the math to to actually believe that the early 1980’s was 35<\/span> 30 years ago.\u00a0 Geez.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the model is exquisite, right down to the thousands of nut and bolts.\u00a0 It is a dead on match to the drawings.\u00a0 I tried to convince Tom that it would look good on my layout as it is the exact model I need….<\/p>\n

I plan on building one of these in the next year, I hope I can get it to turn out as good as Tom’s.\u00a0 He took home a lot of awards for the model, 5 or 6 I believe.\u00a0 All deserved.<\/p>\n

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This building was built by Earl Smallshaw.\u00a0 A very good looking model of a brick firehouse.\u00a0 It was very well done although I am not sure how well it did in the contests.\u00a0 When the awards were being given out I was quite busy setting up for the Train Show.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know who built this model, but it was very well done, especially the detailed removable roof.\u00a0 Perfect colouring.<\/p>\n

Update – This was built by Chuck Diljak and received an honourable mention in the structures scratch built class.<\/p>\n

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This roundhouse model won best in show.\u00a0 While I felt there were better models on display, it was very well done.\u00a0 I espeically liked how he finished the roof, it was very convincing.\u00a0 For some reason I didn’t photograph the whole model, only the roof.<\/p>\n

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A couple of well weathered pieces of equipment.\u00a0 The CSX car was especially well done.<\/p>\n

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This beautifully constructed sawmill was built by Carl Laskey and took first in the diorama kit class.\u00a0 It was a huge model and fully detailed.<\/p>\n

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This fish seller model was by far my favorite.\u00a0 I had this pegged for the best in show, but surprisingly it only got an honorable mention.\u00a0 Built by Sam Swanson I felt this was an extremely well built model.\u00a0 The quality of the colouring and level of detail was impressive, right down to the bemustachioed fish mongers.\u00a0 A detailed rack of drying fish can be seen off to one side.\u00a0 Keep in mind that this is in HO scale.<\/p>\n

The rust effect on the oil drum is beautiful.<\/p>\n

I am very curious why it didn’t place higher.<\/p>\n

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This sawmill model was built by Richard Newmiller and placed first in the diarrhea<\/del><\/span> diorama (stupid spell checker) scratch built category.\u00a0 The detail on this was extensive and very well done.\u00a0 The roof was raided<\/del> raised to reveal the fully detailed mill interior.\u00a0 A close look into the dormer on the roof shows someone sharpening a saw blade.<\/p>\n

The HO scale pickup trucks were very well done and painted perfectly.<\/p>\n

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Richard Waltz got an honorable mention in the structures scratch built class for this coal dealer model.\u00a0 Another fine example of modeling.\u00a0 Great job on the fine details, the scattered trash under the main building is very convincing.<\/p>\n

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Standards and Conformance Department manager Di Voss offered to check the trackwork on my Bronx Terminal to see if it conformed to NMRA standards.\u00a0 It passed and I received some points toward my Civil Engineering certificate.\u00a0 Clark Kooning, the Canadian Director of the NMRA also checked it, it takes two executives to award points.\u00a0 Checked were a turnout, three way and a crossing.<\/p>\n

That pretty much covers all the shots I took in the contest room.\u00a0 I have many, many more from the show to sort through and will get them posted shortly.<\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lotsa Pictures!\u00a0 Be patient until they all load. Click on images for larger\u00a0 versions…. The first batch of pictures from Hartford are of some of the fine models on display in the contest room.\u00a0 This is the same room where I set up the Bronx Terminal on Monday and operated it during the week.\u00a0 While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,4,22],"tags":[142,27,106],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-nmra-train-show-hartford","category-front-page","category-next-show","tag-2009-nmra-train-show-hartford","tag-cnj-bronx-terminal","tag-hartford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}