Some time ago, a small group of us had a discussion about the possible connection between the Boy Scouts and Bachmann Trains. Let me share this as a possibility:
Many of the MR clubs in our area, set up displays for an annual Boy Scout sponsored train show. We fill most of the large spaces of a middle school with modular displays from Z scale to G Scale... even LEGO trains and Live Steam.
This is normally a fund raiser for Scouting in general. This year was a fund raiser for the Tsunami victims in Japan, specifically Boy Scout Troop #2, none of whom now have a home to go back to. Who knew there was Scouting in Japan?
Anyway, trains stuff is raffled off, 99% of which is brand new Bachmann items: EZ command systems, the new civil war train sets, various rolling stock; the list goes on. I didn't ask, but I wonder if these goodies were directly donated from Bachmann. Certainly there aren't many hobby shops from which to get this stuff.
So we are in the middle of a train show weekend, and I remembered our previous discussion.
Here's a few shots of some HO modules. No offense to the other scales (their modular layouts were impressive), just didn't have time to shoot pics in the other rooms:
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