2024 Pine Rivers Model Train & Hobby Exhibition.

The last exhibition for year was hosted by the Railway Modellers Club of Queensland (RMCQ) at the South Pine Sports Complex on the weekend of the 7-8^th of December 2024. 

It was a very hot weekend, ceiling fans were the method of cooling in the exhibition display area making thing not that comfortable. Over the past few years not a lot has changed with the same layouts across most shows. The only variety being that some exhibitors don’t attend all shows, some attend set shows and not others. Many layouts will be the same as last year. 

 Having said that, there is the layouts in your prototype and scale that you look forward to seeing again. Then there is the other side of the coin, follow modellers who come to town one or twice a year and it catch up time. Well, yes I did do a lot of talking and by 2:00pm the voice was gone and time for lunch. And then with a bit more luck, there could be something new that has been released for you to check out and maybe spend a dollar or two.  

The program/guide of 3 x A4 pages showed 14 Traders and 31 Layouts, not all exhibitors were in their spot on the map. Being an hobby exhibition, there was other displays. 

Let’s start with some QR layouts, all have been featured before, but worth another look. 

Stannumvale:- QR H0n3½ freelance layout set in the 1960’s. Also good to chat with the Caintode Flats crew.

 

Walloon:- QR H0n3½  prototype station on the main line between Ipswich and Toowoomba.

Logan and District Model Railway Club. 

Glinvale:- QR H0 (16.5mm track). Freelance DCC layout.

Birchdale:- A fictitious BR Branchline - OO scale.  

Newbridge:- N scale. fictional town somewhere in the UK. 

Shasta Crossing:- N scale, loosely depiction operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad USA. NCE - DCC Australian T-Track. Ken from Beerwah.  

Lindale:- 'Where's Wally.

Cleat Country:- N scale, 2.5 m x 1.2 meters

British Railway Modellers of Australia:- A selection of show cases of various scenes. 

Modelling demo stand.

Small Layouts on the RMCQ stand. 

AMRA Qld;- U-Drive Layout 

Soutbrook Dock:- 

Urangan Pier:- OO scale layout. 

NMRA Div.1 

Ipswich Model Railway Club T Track.

Ramnicu Valcea:- HO layout in Central/South Romania.

Pine Gully:- Freelance modular N scale layout with a North American focus. Northern Rivers MRC

Lego Trains and Trucks.

Wansbeck Road:- 2 mm scale (1:152) layout, recently gifted to the members of the SEQAG of the 2 mm Scale Assn. Track hand laid to 9.42mm. The aim was to capture the fell of a typical Country Durham village in the late 1950. This is the layout's Australian debut, having been to in excess 90 exhibitions in the UK. 

High Country:- N scale layout Lagan and District Model railway club.

Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society  ANGRMA. 

Valley Division. HO T-Track with each module being a different country of Europe and UK. 

That's all the Layouts, I may of missed a couple. Maybe just too much talking ????? 

Trade:-

                       Col's Australian Railway Books and Hobbies. 

Chilli Laser Engraving. Microbuildings in HO and N scales. 

Modellers Warehouse.

Greg's Trains

Aurora Trains.

Col's Trains.  Super bargain and SNAPPY service.  Pre loved trains all scales. 

Model Box. 

CGL Models/Queensland Scale Models. Display of 3D printed Queensland Building from "Beautiful Little Buildings" 

RAILCO.

Marty's Train Shed. DCC components, decoders and TCS throttles and systems. 

Bricks n Fun. 

IDR Models. 

J & J Hobbies.

Looks like I missed "Railway Coins". 

Other displays.

Garage Gamers.

Many thanks to the MRQC team for hosting the show and the exhibitors for the time and effort to show their layouts for us modellers to enjoy. 

Next year the show is in July 2025. 

Trust you find the photos enjoyable. Until next time, stay safe and well. 

Arthur H.