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| Shots of our Layout at various shows showing its overall evolution. |
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Our early planning stages in 2004 for the freeform, set-up-on-the-fly layout. |
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Pictures of some of our trains in action on the layout. |
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| Our city area with taller buildings has migrated from the center of the layout to one end. |
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Old town in the center of the layout features the Tomytec Town Collection buildings. |
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Our industrial area in the center of the layout. |
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| The shinkansen yard consists of 11 tracks, three of which can hold 16 car shinkansens. |
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The Container yard has room for two container trains and a large container storage area. |
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The Viaduct station is 9' long and can hold four 16 car shinkansens! |
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| The temple on the hill has slowly grown, now sporting a surrounding grove of cherry trees. |
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Our fast food row has slowly evolved from McDs, Dennys, and burger joints to a more japanese set of food establishments. |
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Godzilla (Goji is his nickname) has been a part of the layout since its inception. we now have a 50m scale Goji and a 6' inflatable big brother. |
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| Some of the scenery details on the layout over the years. |
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The JRM layout is set up on the fly so we have a lot of parts and processes to get the layout set up. |
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A fun gif animation of our set up a the Timonium show. It should give you an idea of how we do it! (1.5MB Gif Animation) |
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Some miscellaneous fun stuff from our shows. |
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The original JRM layout plan has undergone several changes over the years, here are the main parts. |
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| We have had wonderful audiences at our show from small local shows to the Cherry Blossom Festival with over 160,000 visitors! |
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We need to get better at taking pictures of the group, but here are some pictures of us! |
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Sakura Matsuri 2009
This year JRM were honored to be invited to show our layout at the National Cherry Blossom Festival Sakura Matsuri (Street Festival) in Washington DC. Presented by the Japan-America Society, the festival is the largest one day japanese cultural event in the United States, with over 140,000 people attending in a 7 hour period in past years with good weather. This years blustery, but sunny and warm weather brought out record crowds with over 160,000 visitors! |
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World's Greatest Hobby Train Show February, 2006
The WGH show came to Dullas Expo center in Northern Virginia. We were accepted to display at the show and given a great spot front and center in the exhibit hall! We had a lot of great feedback by the visitors who were mostly families about the uniqueness of our layout. This show also saw the debut of our video wall in one of our high rise buildings. This was created by using a small digital personal video recorder mounted inside the building. |
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Rockville Lions Club's
Model Train Show
The Rockville MD (just north of DC) Lions Club hosts and annual model train show for families every November. This show is by invitation to local model railroading clubs with display layouts and has no vendors selling items. The show is a charity event, raising over $6,000 annually for the Lions Club's eyeglasses program. This is a mainly a family event and great fun. Local clubs turn out and show from T gauge to O gauge trains! JRM has been participating since 2005 and its one of our most enjoyable shows as it is very local, a charity event, and full of kids! |
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The Great Scale Model Train Shows, Timonium, MD
The GSMT show was the show the JRM layout debuted at in October of 2004. This is one of the two large train show programs in the greater DC area (GSMTS and the Greenberg Train and Toy Shows) and has a show every three months at the Baltimore Fair Grounds in Timonium MD (about an hour drive from the DC area). Club layouts are invited to display at the February, April and October shows (summer shows are held in a smaller facility with a/c and not enough room for layouts). Since 2004 JRM has participated in 14 GSMT shows at Timonium! |
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JRM Layout - First exhibition, October 2004
We first exhibited the JRM layout at the Great Scale Model Train show in Timonium MD October 9-10, 2004. The layout concept was started in the spring of 2004 to potentially do a layout for the National N Scale Convention taking place the summer of 2004 in the washington DC area. We were not able to develop the layout in time for the convention, so debuted the layout at the GSMT show in the fall.
Read more about the show >
Photo gallery > |
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| Philip has been our leader in creating T-Trak modules. He is doing alternate spacing |
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Dmitry has been making both European and Japanese themed T-Trak modules. |
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Curt has recently just started his first T-Trak module and is enjoying the easy, yet effective modeling that can be done. See his article here. |
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Gyula has been experimenting with T-Trak for the last few years with alternate and standard spacing. |
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Trains of Japan - A Photo Essay By Bob Tomasko - Revised, Updated and Expanded!
Japan is a railfan’s heaven – especially if you like electrically propelled passenger trains. You name it, and (except for mile-long freights) they have it. JRM member Bob Tomasko took the photos that follow during trips to Japan in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007. They illustrate the broad range of equipment you are likely to see on a visit.
- Shinkansens (bullet trains) in a variety of styles
- Limited express intercity train sets (EMU and DMU)
- Container freights and a (static display of a) steam locomotive
- Airport-to-city express shuttles
- Urban local commuter rakes
- Trams, LRVs and mountain railways
- Cable cars and monorails
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by Aaron Heiiner
Aaron presents a stunning look at japan through his black and white photography. |
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by Aaron Heiner
An artistic look at the trains of Japan and the people who use them with black and white photography. |
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