The Santa Maria Free-Mo Modular Layout / RPM meet Photo Gallery by Ryan M. Martin at pbase.com

The Santa Maria Free-Mo Modular Layout / RPM meet

Photos from the 2004 Santa Maria Free-Mo Modular Layout / RPM meet by Ryan M. Martin / Harry Wong / Tim Harris

Free-Mo was back in action in early 2004 at the Santa Maria Mall (Santa Maria is just south of San Luis Obispo, CA) for the weekend of February 21st and 22nd. Three distinct Free-Mo groups with their HO modules met in the Central California Coast to combine to make one impressive layout in a vacant mall store space.

Click here for the track plan

In partnering up with the Santa Maria RR Museum, the layout along with a RPM prototype modelers meet was open to the general public with an estimated 3,000 people visiting over the weekend. Lots of train crazy kids mixed in with serious hardcore modelers. Track warrant dispatch sessions were held on Saturday with operators with radios taking down and repeating back real track warrants. Run chief/event organizer Chris Palomarez even provided real printed-up timetables that corresponded with the assembled module line-up to make the dispatch sessions a breeze.

Big thanks to "Run Chief" Chris P. for organizing the event, thanks to all of the Free-Mo'er's for making the long (and short) drive to S.M. to make the large layout a reality, thanks to the SMRRM group for helping sponsor the event, and biggest props to the Santa Maria Mall who gave us an awesome rental rate in providing us with adequate light and for letting us stay by the layout late into the night after the open mall hours! Looking forward to next year!

To send additional images of this event or for permission to use these copyrighted images elsewhere, please email me at: espeeboy@yahoo.com

Additional information on these models or modules are only available from that particular owner/ modeler. If you do have a question, please feel free to leave it in the comments section.

See the following sites for more Free-Mo information:

NorCal Freemo Webpage

www.free-mo.org

and see more NorCal freemo galleries at:

Harvey House @ Barstow, CA 11/2003

CP Maggiefest 05/2003

Fremont 12/2002

Portfest 06/2002

-Ryan M. Martin aka "espeeboy"

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Henry C Peraza		15-Mar-2004 02:35
A very very complete coverage of the meet. I“m enjoying it in full extent. Being far away from you it makes me sense as if I have been there. An exellent gallery. Thanks Henry C Peraza Bogotį D.C., COLOMBIA, South America

Jerry Glow		13-Mar-2004 13:41
I appreciate these meet coverages esp since I moved from the west coast to Florida. Would it possible to make the images viewable in a "slide show" fashion?

Shaun Ross		12-Mar-2004 05:48
Ryan, A very nice job. Only one comment though. I suggest either positioning columns of images closer together or only using 3 collumns. This will make it easier for people to view when using monitors with lower resolutions (800 x 600) Keep up the good work. It's always inspirational to see what you guys get up to at these Freemo meets. Shaun Cape Town South Africa

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