Getting here a week early has its benefits.
The Michigan Small Scale Live Steamers were well represented.
Peter Comley's new creation...
speeds by.
and it ran well!
An Aster Great Western Pannier hauls a British mixed freight.
Tom Burns' magnificently detailed Accucraft K-27
Jim Hadden's latest masterpiece
A close up
Allison Wondersteam
John Bigelow watches my Roundhouse Katy...
and his new acquisition.
Sometimes the road names did not match.
And sometimes the scale.
Caleb runs his Daylight -- at night!
Bev and Carol - two lady steamers
Morgan and Diana, two more
Our own private chef
Bill Burgess with his latest creation
David Martin's American on its new display stand
Fred Gandolfi's Hudson
Kevin O'Connor working his magic.
Voila!
Master Modeler and Hammer Dulcimer Maker, Bob Starr
John Shawe even coal fired a Scotsman.
Kate gets a little extra help from Dawn
The high school kids with the Ruby they assembled in class
Kevin Strong
Murray Wilson's exquisite antiques
Next generation steamers
Plenty of track time this year
Raif with his Ffestiniog Train
Rick's 3 cylinder Accucraft Shay
Some of us really came prepared.
Stanley still steaming
The Canadians have arrived
The new Accucraft Switcher
The whistle masters confer.
Torry Krutzke checks out his coal fired K-27
Tuning the Tuba
Whistle Master Weltyk holds class.
Who says that you cannot make a plastic live steamer?
Why is this man smiling?
Would you believe a 2-8-8-8-4?
Ed Cook's Propane fired train