There were some interesting items at this weekend’s Greenberg Model Railroad Show in Wilmington…

But ultimately it was disappointing.

The big problem was the ratio of layouts to vendors: it was much too small, maybe 20% layouts and some of them were lame. I suppose if I were in the market for buying more stuff (and if the internet were less active) I would have been more interested in buying things here, but on the whole it was… as I said… disappointing. But some things were still worth seeing.

A layout made entirely out of Legos was interesting and well done. Nice supply of Walthers structure kits to buy, but prices were higher than on-line. NMRA Hub Division of course had a good layout, but it was nothing new. I did get a lovely 2020 calendar featuring the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line. But still…

Anyway, here are a few photos to show you the highlights of the show. You may wonder what on earth the first image is. It’s actually pretty cool. It shows a magnetic right-angle clamp, which consists of a pair of right-angle braces (one inside, one outside) that stay properly affixed through magnets, thus assuring that the structure you’re building has orthogonal corners.

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