It was lightly attended on Thursday and Friday felt like a typical York day to me. Thursday was bitterly windy, rainy, and cold. Friday was much better. I felt like there was a bit more 2R scattered about at the show this time around, mostly in orange, purple, and silver halls. As always, you have to look for it.
I had never seen TT scale before (half Z?) and there is a video of that down below too.
As for Manufacturer news that I am aware of or asked about...here is what I noted. Nothing really significant, but hopefully thinks are looking up for AtlasO's production schedule:
- AtlasO had fliers on their re-designed turntable and universal Signal Control System. I took pictures of the handouts and they are down below. They are also bringing out the water tower from Walther's cornerstone series. They also mentioned that Dash 8's will be coming our around June if all goes to plan. Bill was pleasant to chat with and told me that the new Loksound decoders sound amazing and even allowed them to put synchronized smoke in the 2R units. GP7's should be out by the end of this year and SD40's will probably be sometime in 2019. Looks like the feared loss of AtlasO was premature. They had an assortment of freight cars, etc on display.
- Bachmann said they were cutting the tooling now for the 70 tonner. I believe the rep said spring of next Year would be the actual release.
- Lionel had an assortment of new stuff and were mainly running their Niagara. 21" Passenger cars galore in Conrail among other things including the interesting tinplate-painted scale equipment. Photos down below.
- MTH had some holiday-lighted things setup and a few other items including some modern SD70 paint schemes. Not for me, but pictures down below. They also had a DCS explorer that you could connect to with your phone and play with the engines they had on display. Not a bad idea.
Below are photos and videos I captured of the show. Please click on photos for large images.
TTscale layout:
Wanna see a VGN triplex pull doublestack cars? This video is for you:
Interesting layout that replaced the OGR Booth:
Video of said layout:
Lionel Booth:
Lionel Booth Layout:
From the AtlasO Booth...
AtlasO Layout:
From the MTH booth...
