The club wrapped up our setup at the 2016 Rocky Mountain NMRA Regional Convention at the Hotel Escalante in Colorado Springs, Colorado this past weekend.   The convention was a week-long event culminating with the train show the last three days of the event.  There were over 14 events in addition to the train show.  Our layout setup, operation and tear-down was super smooth thanks to a full compliment of members for this local show.

The convention was surprisingly lightly attended but had good attendance from train show open to the public on Friday and Saturday to the public. Many of the members attended several of conventions modeling seminars and the rock carving of injected foam board seemed to be the most enlightening session.

There were a couple of highlights for the layout. Brian Bates bought some of his latest Modern Missouri Pacific painted locomotives, a full set of GP60s painted in his modern interpretation of the MoPac running an priority piggyback train.  We staged several photos and video of trains entering and exiting the layout staging yard of the layout.  Brian has since posted them to his Modern MoPac Facebook page.  Its really an interesting concept to model in the hobby and has been getting a lot attention as of late.  You can check it out his concept of proto freelancing of the Missouri Pacific fallen flag railroad here.

For the first time in about two years we had included the Webster Caterpillar modules into the floor plan.  Damage in transportation after the 2014 Sherman Hill show sidelined the modules until repairs and renovation of the parking surface of the Byers Transfer facility were prioritized and completed.  The modules includes to large industries on the CGW layout highlighted by a full-service Caterpillar dealership.

You can check out the full photo album from the  Rocky Mountain NMRA Regional Convention on the club's Facebook page here.