Last night was the NMRA Banquet, the last event of the 2007 Detroit NMRA Convention. The banquet was held at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit – the perfect venue! Dinner surrounded by vintage Ford (and other) cars and even a DC10 hanging from the ceiling! A very (surprisingly) enjoyable evening! I will definitely go [...]
Yesterday was the first day of the National Train Show, the largest one yet – 160,000 square feet of traders, manufacturers and layouts!! Here are a few photos of the hall…unfortunately I don’t have a wide angle lens! We spent about 6 hours at the show yesterday, and still haven’t seen everything! Quite a bit [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]