Trainfest Milwaukee 2015

[unittrain]

New announcement from Bluford. Winter cornfield. 

N scale corn on the cob for n scale picnic tables. 

[Steve Rodgers]

N scale corn on the cob for n scale picnic tables. 

Yessss

[asarge]

N scale corn on the cob for n scale picnic tables.

Yessss

With or without the Cobb holders?   

[milw156]

Stop by the Modutrak layout and check out the Official Bluford Corn Test Plot across the tracks from Frank's Sour Kraut!!!

[lashedup]

N scale corn on the cob for n scale picnic tables. 

I voted for crop circles from Bluford next but almost got voted off the island. 

I'll be there Friday and Saturday. 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

New announcement from Bluford. Winter cornfield. 

You joke, but trying to replicate winter cornfields is something I've thought a good bit about, and it's actually quite the challenge.

[Steve Rodgers]

You joke, but trying to replicate winter cornfields is something I've thought a good bit about, and it's actually quite the challenge.

Ed,you could start with the fall set.I've thought about that as well.

[w neal]

and the Lansing show is on Sunday.

Between the opening of deer season and Trainfest weekend, you'd think those in Lansing might pick a different weekend for theirs. But, I suppose its whenever MSU can fit them in. Ah well, come smell the excitement!

Hoping to be at Trainfest. See you at Leon's!

[unittrain]

I'd like to see correct early 60' hi cube boxcars such as the greenville.

[asarge]

You joke, but trying to replicate winter cornfields is something I've thought a good bit about, and it's actually quite the challenge.

me too Ed. even with a light snow.

[Rossford Yard]

I will be there on Sunday as soon as I can drive up from O'Hare. Managed to get a client meeting on Monday in MILW, paying for the trip.  Getting a bit tired of our local train shows, but the one time I went to TF, it was stout, and I did get to buy lots of little detail things I rarely see at shops or smaller train shows.  I have my shopping list ready......

[Ed Kapuscinski]

me too Ed. even with a light snow.

Yep, exactly.

Because, what you need, are the tiny, lined up rows of 1' tall cut stalks, and that's really tough.

[sirenwerks]

N scale Modutrak will be there - we will have a pretty good sized layout.  Set up will be a bit different than in years past; the HO guys will be there as well and we will be in an "L" shape with the HO layout in the middle of the L.  Stop by and see the layout

Nate

Since I can't be there, looking forward to new photos and videos of the layout for more inspiration.

[C855B]

... tiny, lined up rows of 1' tall cut stalks, and that's really tough.

Hmm. Fields of corn stubble are usually indicative of modern practices, "modern" meaning roughly after mid-1970 (tho' some experimentation from 1950-on). It used to be turned-under right after harvest for the organic matter to decompose in the soil. With the advent of large-scale agricultural chemistry and eventually seed drills specialized for the practice, it became more beneficial to favor soil conservation with no-till techniques.

Anyway... corn stubble foreground with Conrail, yes; steam, not so much.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Interesting, I did not know that.

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Thanks!