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Great River Valley Systems NTRAK Club Recent Show Layouts
GTE Photo 1: View of the show floor. In addition to the layouts and vendors
shown here, a dozen additional layouts were set up in the outer halls.
Text and Photos by Ed Shultz
Great River Valley System (GRVS)
attended two train shows over the past
few weeks and participated in N-Trak
layouts at both shows. The first show
was a Great Train Expo show held at
the Mid-America center in Council
Bluffs, Iowa the weekend of February
1/2, 2013. GRVS and DesMoinTrak
had a nice sized layout with two loops
joined by two junction modules
occupying a space of 62’ x 24’. Set
up took place Friday afternoon with
very few problems. GRVS has been
doing shows with the Des Moines
club and we find we work very well
together. Over the past few years we
have done several GTE shows and
WGH shows with the Des Moines
club; however, they still owe GRVS a
bus. A large T-Trak layout was also
on display at the show. That layout
was put on by the Iowa Central T-
Trak.
The second show GRVS
participated in was the 46th annual
Mad (Madison) City Train show
sponsored by the Wisconsin
Southeast Division (WISE) of the
NMRA on the weekend of February
16/17, 2013. The N-Trak layout was
coordinated by Dave Menard from
Chippewa Valley N-Gineers. Other
clubs that had modules in the 60’ x
36’ N-Trak layout were Far North
Rail from Thunder Bay, Canada,
Northwest N-Trak from the Chicago
area, and Milwaukee N-Trak
(MANTrak). The show drew over
7,000 attendees with over 5,000
attendees on Saturday alone.
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