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The Pacific Science Center’s 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

January 25, 2013 By Jessica Petersen Leave a Comment

We spent two exciting days at the 39th Annual Model Railroad Show at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center last weekend.  Exciting and exhausting for us adults, but completely worth it.  Given that we already have a membership to the Science Center, I wasn’t going to let the Little Engineer miss out on anything.

The show seemed a lot bigger this year. But then again, the only other year we’ve gone so far was last year, during Seattle’s it-only-happens-once-a-year snow in, so I’m not sure if this is a trend or not.  Either way, I and my camera appreciated that the wooden train table and the Lego/Duplo train play area had been moved into rooms with natural light.

Here are some photos from the show:  Lego trains, wooden trains, Playmobile trains, and of course model trains in all different sizes, from N-scale to O-scale, with kid-friendly appearances by Thomas & Friends engines and the Hogwarts Express.  I’ll return to the subject of the train show soon to focus on the wTrak modular wooden train table the Little Engineer adores.  Update:  see pictures of and read about the wTrak train tables here.  I’ll also introduce our official mascot here at Play Trains! in the near future, who was quite excited to get to go on this adventure with the Little Engineer and get invited to be photographed in one of the N-scale displays.  See if you can spot him in the pictures below!

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Model diesel engines pulling freight cars

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Display of different gauges of model train track

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Model diesel engine coming out from under an overpass on its way to the turntable

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Model tanker cars

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Model roundhouse (under construction?)

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

A detail of an amazing model display by Baby Gramps

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

City Blocks’ custom Island of Sodor display…just as amazing as it was last year! (Better pictures can be found on their Facebook page.)

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Little Engineer playing with the Duplo trains. Man, the competition was fierce to get ahold of a Duplo Thomas!

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

The Little Engineer building Duplo track

wTrak Modular Train Tables at the 2013 Pacific Science Center 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

The Little Engineer at his favorite part of the event, the wTrak wooden train table.

wTrak Modular Train Tables at the 2013 Pacific Science Center 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Seriously awesome wooden train stuff here

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Playmobile train display — I took better photos of this at a train show in December, which I’ll have to post soon.

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

N-scale train yard

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

N-scale freight train going over a bridge. I love this whole layout.

Meekat the Engineer Meerkat at the 2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Model train yard, with a very enthusiastic visitor.

Meekat the Engineer Meerkat at the 2013 Pacific Science Center 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

He got to visit the roundhouse as well!

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

O-scale Hogwarts Express

2013 Pacific Science Center's 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

One of two layouts where kids could run the model trains themselves

Meekat the Engineer Meerkat at the 2013 Pacific Science Center 39th Annual Model Railroad Show

Thanks for touring the train show with us!

Filed Under: Cool Train Stuff, Train Shows and Exhibitions Tagged With: Lego, Meekat, model trains, Seattle, train shows, wooden trains, wTrak

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