After a Covid induced cancellation for 2020, the PNW On30 Modular Group is back on the train show circuit for 2021 starting with arguably our favorite venue – Clamshell Days at the Pacific Columbia Heritage Museum in Ilwaco WA. The annual event was held on the typical second weekend of July 17-18th. “Clamshell Days” is the celebration of the narrow gauge Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Co history which ran along the length of the Long Beach peninsula. The museum hosts the event where a small model railroad exhibition is provided with several modular displays, railroad centric kids activities and tours of the various historic structures along the original line of the IR&N.
This would be our first train show since Monroe in February 2020 and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We certainly appreciated the opportunity to get back together here in Ilwaco and owe a huge thanks to the Pacific Columbia Heritage Museum staff for making the event happen. Although we remained masked up the entire weekend for precautions, this show was a good indicator that we are finally in the initial stages of putting the pandemic behind us and getting back to normal routines which is having fun with friends and trains!
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Pretty neat!
Nancy and I went to Ilwaco for this event as our first outing that was long distance in our van. We are very happy that we did this and we were very impressed with the huge FreeMo layout. It is so well built and the scenery was excellent throughout.