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2008 Show Photos © by Doug Scott
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2008 Show Photos © by Doug ScottAmherst Railway Society, Inc.
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Thursday Night Arrival |
 Doug Scott's Musconetcon Tunnel module upon arrival Thursday night. |
 The ABEL cart holds tools, module legs and lots of supplies. |
 Clark Huber with the ABEL trailer behind him. Notice the ramp that allows the cart to be loaded and unloaded. |
 Arrival of Stan Slowik's Port Arcadia modules. |
 The rental truck arrives with Patrick Kubala's East Deerfield Yard modules. |
 Bolton Junction modules stand behind the supply cases. |
 Steve and Patrick consider the situation |
 More modules set on legs. |
 And carry the module to it's place. |
 Who's gonna help unload that truck? |
 The computer that runs the layout. |
 Mike Cormier |
 Show Director, John Sacerdote driving ABEL Coordinator Clark Huber. Hey, what do you call a speeder without flanged wheels? |
 Setting up East Deerfield |
 Surgical tools! |
 Surgery starts. |
 Which leg was too long? |
 Stan with Clark and Sudro. |
 OK, it's done. |
 Phil Johnson and Bruce MacCullagh preparing rails to span the module boundaries. |
 Matt and Jeremy studying the setup of the new East Deerfield Control Panel. |
 Phil cuts a rail section for spanning modules. |
 And Bruce puts it in place. |
 Control bus cables rest on Bolton Junction awaiting installation. |
 Phil works on another module rail connection. |
 The Bock Family working on Module connections. |
 Doug Moore watches as Patrick pieces together the East Deerfield Yard modules. |
 Inside the new control panel. |
 Patrick at East Deerfield. |
 Jeremy underneath East Deerfield |
 And there are still more rail connections to make. |
 Carlton and Scott in foreground work on more rail connections. |
 Brenda and Phil Opeilowski with Phil Johnson receiving recognition for Phil Opeilowski's book about Palmer, Massachusetts' seven railroads to which Phil Johnson contributed many pictures. |
It's Show Time, Let's Run Some Trains |
 Jaime Robinson and daughter Carlee, both in Red, run a double-headed steam coal train out of East Deerfield across the Connecticut River bridge. |
 ABEL power painted by Clark |
 ABEL power on the Connecticut River Bridge. |
 Articulated steam power at Mustconetcong Tunnel |
 ABEL power at Bayard module |
 ABEL power at Bayard module |
 New ABEL caboose |
 Old Abel Caboose |
 Old and new together |
 Old and New Cabooses at Bayard |
 A variety of cabooses and Western Maryland motive power at Bayard |
 ABEL power leaves Bayard |
 The crew at the Bolton Junction Command Control Center |
 Providence and Worcester power through Bayard |
 Mike Chapman at Westernport |
 Joe Biagione and Carlton Rohmer |
 Paul Diamond and Alan Rice at Still River |
 ABEL power exits Musconetcong Tunnel |
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 Clark Huber and family |
 Clark and Son |
 William Rice, uncoupling tool tucked above his ear, drives his train at Bayard |
 Steaming through Bayard |
 Jeremy, Clark and Son, William |
 John Entwhistle with a locomotive on the programming track at the Bolton Junction Command Control Center |
 Locomotive servicing area at East Deerfield |
 Carlton railfanning at East Deerfield |
 Westernport |
 Westernport |
 Munsey's Farm |
 The Connecticut River Yard Crew |
 The Connecticut River Yard Crew |
 Racetrack |
 Racetrack |
 Golf Course |
 East Deerfield Yard |
 East Deerfield Yard |
 East Deerfield Yard |
 East Deerfield Yard |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Port Arcadia |
 Stan Slowik shows off the newest module of his Port Arcadia set |
 Construction cranes at the Port Arcadia Krispy Kreme |
 C&O Steam at Musconetcong |
 C&O Steam at Musconetcong |
 C&O Steam at Musconetcong |
 Carlton photographs trains at Bayard |
 Amtrak lays over at Bayard |
 Amtrak lays over at Bayard |
 Well that's one way to carry passengers if you don't have passenger equipment. |
 Musconetcong |
 Young operator at Bolton Mills |
 Amtrak barrels past the Beaver Brook Scenic Railway engine house. |
 Spring trees at Middletown |
 Do I get the impression that Musconetcong Tunnel is the most photographed module on the layout? |
 Jim, John and Steve. The show is almost over and the storage boxes are waiting to pack up. |
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