{"id":640,"date":"2013-03-09T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=640"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:15:01","slug":"on-traxs-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/on-traxs-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Set: On TraXS 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve been to a train show; I suspect it was SuperTrain 2003 in Calgary. So when Robin and I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoorwegmuseum.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch Railway Museum<\/a> last week and found that there was to be a model railway event this weekend, I decided to go back. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OntraXS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On TraXS<\/a> 2013 brought together close to 30 exhibition style layouts and 40 vendors for a three day event.<\/p>\n<p>There were some very well-done layouts on display. I especially liked:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Michael Kirsch, Cursdorf, HO &#8211; DDR<\/li>\n<li>Johan van Balberghe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naardesporen.be\/balmount.htm\">Balmount River Railway<\/a>, On30 &#8211; USA<\/li>\n<li>Ernst-Jan Goedbloed, Stefanowo, HO &#8211; PL<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Junk, L&#8217;aubraie, Gn15 &#8211; F<\/li>\n<li>Ren\u00e9 Wolf, <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfscreek.wordpress.com\/\">Wolf\u2019s Creek Railway<\/a>, On30 &#8211; USA<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But the most impressive was Thomas Schmid&#8217;s &#8220;La Valise&#8221;, a Gn15 layout in a small suitcase. Brillant!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130309_BJC5088x-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Schmid's La Valise Railway at On Traxs 2013\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130309_BJC5088x-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130309_BJC5088x-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130309_BJC5088x-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130309_BJC5088x.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Schmid&#8217;s La Valise Railway at On Traxs 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I brought both my new Sony DSC RX-100 and my Nikon D7000 and made a pass of exhibit hall with each. I&#8217;ve made a photo set available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/sets\/72157632953117767\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve been to a train show; I suspect it was SuperTrain 2003 in Calgary. So when Robin and I visited the Dutch Railway Museum last week and found that there was to be a model railway event this weekend, I decided to go back. On TraXS 2013 brought together close to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/on-traxs-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo Set: On TraXS 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-model-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}