The Ammonusuc Valley Railway Association has a modular HO layout. We accepted an invitation from the Lebanon train Show to bring the layout to the show. So, the clock radio starts yakking at me to get up at 5:30 Sunday morning. It's still dark. And snowing. Had to brush 1/2" of the white stuff off the car. Global warming at work. Got down to Lebanon at 8 and the rest of the club plus the trailer full of layout all arrived just about then. It being mud season, we couldn't back the trailer up to the back door, it would have sunk. Everything had to be hand trucked in the front door and down the corridors to the show room. Good thing they put in those wheelchair ramps, they are much easier to get up with a hand truck than the front stairs.
They let the showgoers in by 10. We had the layout mostly running by 10:30. We gotta get a new level, the one in the club tool box reads different amounts of tilt depending upon which way up you set it.
Had a fair turnout on the customer side, a little lighter than on the dealer side. I shopped around and picked up some minor stuff. I looked at structure kits for a hundred dollars, (too pricey for me) found some decals, some rolling stock, and called it a day. By the time we got the layout taken down and drove home it was 6:30. Time for a fire and a drink.
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