I had a great time a couple of weeks ago meeting with the Louisville KY trolley club at their monthly meeting. This group is made up of both model and prototype trolley/interurban/public transportation enthusiasts. It was the first time I attended their meetings and I was made to feel quite welcome. The meeting was held at Arthur Robb's house. He and his wife were great hosts. We started the evening socializing and running O scale model trolley and interurban cars on Art's 4 x 8 O scale traction layout. Power is off the overhead on this layout. Art has built many fine O scale traction cars over the years and has quite a unique collection. One of my favorite models that he built is a model of an Indiana Railroad high speed light weight interurban car which he has painted in his private road (Shenandoah Traction) colors. I was able to run my first car a Chigago Birney for the first time on his layout. As I do not have overhead yet.
After running the model cars for a while we watched a couple of traction videos. One video showed numerous shots from the Western Railway Museum out in the San Francisco bay area. The next tape was a montage of different traction properties accross the country and Mexico. I had quite an interesting evening and enjoyed meeting everybody. We had a bit of excitement that evening with several severe storm/tornado warnings. We found out after the fact that a couple of tornados came within a couple of miles of the meeting location. A few buildings were damaged. Here are a few more photos of Art's layout and cars.
