LK&R Rainier Swap Meet in 2007: Part 2

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I originally posted these pictures on my old website on February 9, 2008.

…Continued from Part 1.

The Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club's first-ever Model Train Show & Swap Meet in Rainier, Oregon was held December 8-9, 2007 in the gym of the Riverside Community Church, the former Rainier Elementary School. This year, the show was affected by weather: major flooding had occurred the week before, preventing the Peninsula Model Railroad Club of Ilwaco, Washington from attending as they had planned, and the threat of snow, which appeared on Sunday, may have kept the public away.

Here are some pictures I took at the swap meet on Saturday, December 8.

A Two-Truck Climax and Three-Truck Shay rest in the yard on the LK&R layout.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe GP7 #2793 rests in the engine terminal next to the engine house on the LK&R layout.

The Longview, Kelso & Rainier engine terminal features BNSF SD70MAC #9959 and assorted LK&R units.

This scene is at one end of the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

A pair of Burlington Northern GP35s lead a train of tank cars through the mountains on the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

This rural scene is at the other end of the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

The other side of the mountains on the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout features a road on a ridge and helicopters hovering overhead.

Two trains pass on the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

Trains pass excavators at work on the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

Here is another view of the river scene on the end of the Cascade Z Modelers' Z-scale layout.

Al Belanger's Lionel Polar Express was popular with children who recognized it.

Here is another view of Al Belanger's Lionel Polar Express.

This aerial view shows the vendor tables in the gym.

This aerial view shows the Cascade Z Modelers layout & Al Belanger's Lionel Polar Express. Also visible against the wall is the old LK&R yard, which was for sale.

Northern Pacific 4-6-2 Pacific #2254 poses with a freight train on the main line of the LK&R layout.

Here is another view of Northern Pacific 4-6-2 Pacific on the LK&R layout.

Longview, Kelso & Rainier Caboose #41 is on the end of a freight train on the LK&R layout.

Here is a view of the grain elevator on the LK&R layout.

Here is another view of the grain elevator on the LK&R layout.

Here is another view of the grain elevator on the LK&R layout.

Here is another view of the grain elevator on the LK&R layout.

This Christmas Train was on display in the town on the branch line on the LK&R layout.

An addition to the Longview, Kelso & Rainier layout during 2007 was this plaque in memory of John W. Plant, Donald K. Stanton, Richard Francis, Ray Brink and Douglas C. Markhart.

Continue to Part 3…