I was there all (or at least most) of the weekend with BANTRAK. I don't have any photos to share at the moment; I only took a few photos at the show on Saturday (and most of them came out poorly) and I haven't had a chance to go through Sunday's railfan photos yet.
Arrived about noon on Friday and started layout set-up; we had trains running by around 4:30 PM (I personally ran the Broadway Limited for several laps around the layout as a test).
Spend Saturday running trains and shopping; In the morning I tried to run a train of Atlas articulated autoracks and Bluford 86' boxcars around the layout, but ran into numerous uncoupling issues to I gave up and switched to my CSX Juice Train. In the late afternoon I ran an NS doublestack train.
Sunday I took the day off and went railfanning along the NS mainline, starting in Altoona and working west to Cresson. Caught a local freight, a west-bound doublestack and a rail-train at Altoona, a mixed freight at the Portage tunnel in Galitzen, and an eastbound coal drag at Cresson. After lunch, headed back to Bedford for teardown and trip home.
There were plenty of vendors selling, but I didn't see a lot of buying or what I considered any great deals (I must have missed the coil cars). My purchases were an Atlas Intl Standard caboose (w/ MT's) for $15 and a 3-pack of DI Woodchip cars.
Overall it was another great effort by Mike and company; the only real downer was the AC went on the fritz on Saturday and the place got really humid, it was actually nicer outside than inside.
Tim
