24th Annual Willamette Cascade Train Show

Dawson Station was invited back for it's third showing at the annual Willamette Cascade Train Show. This was the last event we did, so it had been in storage for a full year. Luckily it powered up and ran fine.

This is Conner, who I met the first year I did this event. He is inspecting the code and making a few modifications for me. He is sharp.

The local TV station was there doing a story. I've seen this lady at a number of events and it was fun to hear her story: http://www.kval.com/news/local/Loco-for-Locomotives-Model-trains-on-display-148463095.html

It was a great event. If I could do only one, this would be it.The layout got a lot of run time at the hands of some of future railroaders.

Virtual Rewrite

I've been rewriting the Virtual Layout code in HTML5 in hopes that I can turn it into a smart phone app.  I want to make it so the user can edit the layout. I'm pretty hopeful this will make an easy and fun mini-layout generator. Here is what the framework and a basic layout look like at a smartphone scale:

Javascript is sure a pain to work with, but it is the ultimate cross-platform language! Hopefully it will be worth learning.