Lewis County Mall Model Train Show: January 1998

I originally posted these pictures on my old website on February 9, 2008. I have rescanned them and added some that I hadn’t included before.

These pictures were taken at the model train show at the Lewis County Mall in Chehalis, Washington in January 1998.

Here an O-Gauge two-tone grey Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger pulls a streamlined passenger train over the trestle on a Lionel layout. I think this is the Pierce County Lionel Club, but I am not certain.

The Lionel layout featured a large number of Lionel's operating accessories, many of them in operation. Here is the unloading side of the log loader/unloader.

Another operating accessory on the Lionel layout was the barrel loader shown here.

The Union Pacific Challenger passes another train on the Lionel layout.

A Northern Pacific freight train crosses a trestle on the Lewis County Model Railroad Club's HO-Scale layout.

A BNSF freight train passes a Northern Pacific passenger train on the Lewis County Model Railroad Club's HO-Scale layout.

Great Northern stock car displayed by the Willow Creek Railroad of Brooks, Oregon.

Union Pacific caboose #25740 displayed by the Willow Creek Railroad of Brooks, Oregon.

Union Pacific maintenance of way tank car #908833 displayed by the Willow Creek Railroad of Brooks, Oregon.

Live steam locomotive displayed by the Willow Creek Railroad of Brooks, Oregon.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SW1500 #8320 in red & silver Warbonnet paint displayed by the Willow Creek Railroad of Brooks, Oregon.

A steam-powered heavyweight passenger train on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.

The large roundhouse and turntable on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.

The steam-powered passenger train again, with an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe freight F-unit peeking in from the left, on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.

The steam-powered passenger train on the large curved trestle on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout. Here it is clear that the locomotive is an articulated steam locomotive.

An A-B set of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe F-units pull a freight train over the arch bridge on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.

The steam-powered passenger train and the Santa Fe freight, together at last on the United Northwest Model Railroad Club's N-Scale layout.

I'm not sure whose HO-scale layout this was, but it featured a Chehalis Western Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 and Alco Century-415 and a Weyerhaeuser caboose.

Another Chehalis Western H10-44 on the same HO-scale layout.

I think this model of Burlington Northern GP38 #2075 "Pacific Pride" was on the same HO-scale layout.

An Amtrak F40PH with Superliner cars on what I believe is the same HO-scale layout as above.

Here is a Union Pacific SD9040MAC in the yard on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

Here is a pair of BNSF Dash 9-44CWs in Heritage II paint pulling a freight train on the main line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

I think these are the same BNSF units later in the day, in the yard with a Warbonnet unit on a double-stack train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

Here is a Southern Pacific Daylight GS-4 4-8-4 pulling a heavyweight passenger train through the town on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

Here is a model of Burlington Northern GP38 #2075 “Pacific Pride” on what I think is the Cascade & Northern N-Scale layout.

Here is a Great Northern passenger train in the Big Sky Blue paint scheme on an HO-scale layout.

A Union Pacific DDA40X “Centennial” pulls a double-stack train on the mainline on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

A wide variety of motive power, including Burlington Northern Bicentennials, BN switchers with a freelanced fuel tender, a Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 8-40CW & BNSF Dash 9-44CWs in Heritage I and Heritage II, in the engine terminal on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout. Note the Union Pacific DDA40X with the stack train in the background.

The Burlington Northern Bicentennials (SDP40 #1976, SD40-2 #1876 & U30C #1776) on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

A Southern Pacific Black Widow unit leads a freight train on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout.

A Union Pacific DDA40X Centennial takes a spin on the turntable on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout. This picture also gives a better look at the freelanced Burlington Northern fuel tender.

The Burlington Northern Bicentennials (SDP40 #1976, SD40-2 #1876 & U30C #1776) on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO Scale layout. The new control panels still don’t have ends on them.

A G-scale train passing a large Playmobil fort.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Northern Pacific passenger trains running side-by-side on the Lewis County Model Railroad Club's HO-Scale layout.