Triangle Mall Model Train Show: February 2000

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 Triangle Mall in Longview, Washington, in February 2000. This was the last model train show before I went to college, and was the last time I took pictures of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club’s HO-scale layout before it was sold. I took a lot of pictures, but most of them didn’t come out. I only included eight of these pictures on my old website. I am including all of them now, even though most of them are terrible pictures.

Here is my Union Pacific iron ore train passing the sawmill on branch line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. My Union Pacific streamliner is on a siding in the foreground.

My Union Pacific SD40-2 and GP35 pull a freight train through the town on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

My Union Pacific iron ore train on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. This is a nice view of the completed industrial park section.

My Union Pacific GP30 and GP35 are now on the branch line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout with a freight train.

My Union Pacific iron ore train is now on the main line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout with a different arrangement of locomotives.

My three Union Pacific GP7s are on the branch line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout with a freight train while the iron ore train passes on the main line.

My trio of Union Pacific GP7s pull a freight train on the branch line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. This is also a good view of the furniture factory, which I named Robison Hardwood Furniture after my high school shop teacher.

My Union Pacific iron ore train on the main line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. The entire 50-car train can be seen stretched around the yard.

My Union Pacific streamliner is now on the main line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. Many of the freight cars in the yard are also mine.

Eric Wellington runs my dad’s “People Express” excursion train on the logging line of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. The train is being pulled by one of my dad’s Oregon Central & Pacific GP9Ms.

My Union Pacific streamliner passes through the town on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

My Union Pacific streamliner passes the engine terminal on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

This is one of my Athearn SW7 Cow-Calf sets in the yard on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is a picture of Robison Hardwood Furniture on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

The farm, lit by sunlight from a skylight, on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. This was probably taken on Sunday morning.

Here is another view of the farm, lit by sunlight, on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. A branch line freight train with a Southern Pacific caboose is disappearing into a tunnel.

Four Southern Pacific Black Widow GP9s pull my dad’s Southern Pacific TOFC “Piggyback” train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

I think this N-scale layout belonged to a couple from eastern Oregon. Here it features a Northern Pacific freight train and a Southern Pacific Daylight streamlined passenger train.

Here is another view of the N-scale layout showing the Southern Pacific Daylight streamlined passenger train passing through the town.

Here is my Mantua 4-6-2 pulling a heavyweight passenger train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is another picture of my Mantua 4-6-2 pulling the heavyweight passenger train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. A Southern Pacific 70-Tonner is assigned as the switcher for the industrial park.

My Mantua 4-6-2 pulls a heavyweight passenger train on the main line past a Southern Pacific cab-forward in the yard on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

This is a picture of the moonshiners on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

This is a picture of mountain goats on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. (They are actually regular goats that I painted white).

Kerry King’s pair of Western Pacific Alco switchers pull log cars on the logging line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Kerry King’s Western Pacific SW1 brings a load of logs down the logging line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is a Southern Pacific cab-forward pulling a freight train on the mainline on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is a Southern Pacific steam locomotive pulling a heavyweight passenger train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is another picture of the Southern Pacific steam locomotive pulling the heavyweight passenger train on the other side of the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

The Western Pacific SW1 pulls an empty log train up the logging line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

The Western Pacific SW1 arrives at the logging camp with its empty log train on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. Loaded log cars are waiting on the right for the trip down to the sawmill.

The Western Pacific SW1 comes down the logging line on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout with a loaded log train.

The Western Pacific SW1 arrives at the sawmill on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout with its loaded log train.

The Western Pacific SW1 switches cars at the sawmill on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

Here is a picture of the Western Pacific SW1 with a bay-window caboose at the sawmill on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.

This was supposed to be a picture of the Southern Pacific 70-Tonner at the industrial park on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout. Just enough of the locomotive is visible above the layout fascia to tell what it is.

Finally, here is a picture of Baker Lumber, one of my last projects on the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's HO-scale layout.