Author: CoreyG

  • Albuquerque Brick Convention 2025

    Albuquerque Brick Convention 2025

    We had a large display at Albuquerque Brick Convention in November 2025. This is a Lego convention that is designed for AFOLs to meet up and display their models. They had public days on Saturday and Sunday as well.

  • Gadsden-Pacific Model Train Show 2025

    Gadsden-Pacific Model Train Show 2025

    We had a small display at Tucson’s Gadsden-Pacific Model Train Show on November 9th. This is an outdoor, single day event, so our display had to be fairly small, but they do have very nice toy train layouts in their museum and they have a small riding train.

  • Railfair 2025

    Railfair 2025

    Railfair is this weekend at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale AZ at Indian Bend & Scottsdale Rd. Saturday was a great day for an outside event here. We saw over a thousand people come by and look at our display just on Saturday. The event is still going on Sunday (10/5/2025) from 10AM to 5PM.

  • Mountain Track WIP

    Mountain Track WIP

    This is a work in progress. A little over half of this has been put together. It will have 3 different levels of trains where one part of it goes through a tunnel under the mountain. This will be on display at the Albuquerque Brick Convention in November, 2025.

  • New Vertical Banner
  • McCormick-Stillman Railroad Display

    McCormick-Stillman Railroad Display

    We have a small area in the railroad model building at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, AZ. We change out the display every 4 to 6 months. Our current display which was installed on September 4, 2025 is Western Themed: The previous display which was installed March 20, 2025 was a castle theme:

  • Beat the Heat 2025

    Beat the Heat 2025

    We had a mid sized layout at Beat the Heat Model Train Show in Prescott, AZ on July 26, 2025. Here are a few pictures of our display.

  • Updated Track and new Banner
  • WIP – Multi level Trains

    WIP – Multi level Trains

    The next project one of our club members is working on is for trains to cross over/under each other. This requires a fairly high graded slope to achieve to keep the distances reasonable. That in turn requires the trains to be smaller and lighter to make the grade. For this standard, the decision was made…