Archive for July, 2007

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Posted by Peter on July 26th, 2007

Yes, he’s done it again…! ‘Herr Flik’ (or John to the rest of you!) has taken the US by storm… The awards above are for the following photo: John won 1st Place for this photo in the NMRA Contest, and Best Photo in Show for the same photo…he also got 3rd Place for this photo: [...]

Wednesday, 25th – layout tours

Posted by Peter on July 26th, 2007

Yesterday (Wednesday) Graham and I went on the N scale super tour – a tour of 6 model railroads in the Detroit area. The layouts were all excellent, and with the exception of one, all were in the basements of the houses. We went past HUGE houses on our way to these layouts – makes [...]

Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th…

Posted by Peter on July 25th, 2007

First of all apologies for the lack of updates on Monday – we were all too knackered to update the blog and went to bed early (well, before 12!) Unfortunately there are no photos from Monday, but I will give you a brief rundown of what we did. Monday 23rd We visited the Canadian National [...]

A quick tour of the ‘safe’ zone…

Posted by Peter on July 22nd, 2007

Today (Sunday) we ventured out of the hotel into downtown Detroit. First up was taking photos of Windsor, Ontario – yes, that’s right, Ontario, Canada! Literally a stone’s throw across the river from Detroit!! Our hotel, the Detroit Marriott overlooks Windsor (well, from our bedrooms at least…) General Motors invested $2billion in this complex, consisting [...]

We have arrived…

Posted by Peter on July 22nd, 2007

After an uneventful flight we arrived safely in Detroit last night. We had a nice journey from the airport to the hotel in a limo (well, almost a limo…) chauffeured by Epok, a very knowledgeable and friendly Detroit resident. He gave us some good tips and general info on Detroit – very nice guy! Will [...]