Railfest 09 - Two Great Train Layouts; Part 6

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(Part Six)

June 26, 27, and 28 was Railfest weekend in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This video is of two great train layouts. One of the layouts was on the third floor of the Railroaders Memorial Museum, and the other was about halfway between the Railroaders Museum, and the Horseshoe Curve. The layout on the third floor of the Railroaders Museum was a modular layout. Some of the features on that it included, the Horseshoe Curve, the Gallitzin Tunnels, the Portage Tunnel, and a small train yard. It was a very cool layout. The other layout was at the Altoona Association of Model Railroaders and Museum. The layout is made up of both HO and O gauge. The outside is O, and the inside is HO, with an HO village and town. The building is small, but the club used every inch they could use to build the beautiful layout. Me and Matt (CSX2788) took the shuttle bus that the Railroaders Museum provided for the weekend, which ran from the Railroaders Museum, to the Altoona Association of Model Railroaders and Museum, and then to the Horseshoe Curve where it then ran back to the Railroaders Museum from there. Anyways, I stepped outside of the train club to talk a picture of the sign, and to see if our bus was here, when I heard a train blowing its horn for the near-by "Brick Yard" crossing. Matt (CSX2788) was standing next to me and we both knew it sounded like the E8's coming back to downtown Altoona with the 12:20 excursion train. So thinking we wouldn't be able to see it, we went back inside where we told one of the club members that we thought we heard it coming, when he told us about a path out behind the building that would bring us right next to the tracks. So without wasting anymore time, me and Matt (CSX2788) flew up that path, just in time to see it coming around the bend. After it passed, we headed back down the hill where the shuttle bus was waiting to bring us to the Horseshoe Curve.

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[morfeusz120]

Great video

[OhioRails]

Thanks

[pwalpar]

Good production 5*

[OhioRails]

Thank you!

[DontTryItProductions]

every detail right down to the foot brigde amazing

[ipnz]

Great video awsome layout and the music went with what was happening ,good one

[thetrainman407]

Way overkill on the intro, other than that is was a nice video.

[endocondor]

If they painted miniature graffiti onto the freight cars they'd look more realistic.

[OhioRails]

Thanks!

[OhioRails]

Wouldn't we all.