2008 July SFRH&MS Riverside Convention Free-mo Set-Up Photo Gallery by intermodal at pbase.com

2008 July SFRH&MS Riverside Convention Free-mo Set-Up

Images from the Free-mo set-up at the July 8-13, 2008, Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Convention in Riverside, California, at the Riverside Convention Center. SFRH&MS: http://www.atsfrr.com

Special thanks to Convention Chairman Gene Rutledge for his help in making this set-up possible.

Run Chiefs for this set-up were Gregg Fuhriman and Gary Green. Modules are built to Free-mo standards: http://www.free-mo.org

Modules contributed were from Free-mo LA (Los Angeles), Free-mo SLO (San Luis Obispo), Northern California Free-mo (NorCalF), and Wasatch Free-mo (Utah).

All text and photos by Brian Kreimendahl unless otherwise indicated. All corrections and further people and equipment identification welcomed.

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Greetings from Riverside!	2008 Santa Fe Railway Society Convention.	Riverside set-up layout trackplan drawn by Gregg Fuhriman.	Run Chiefs Gregg Fuhriman (left) and Gary Green.
Early set-up. Left to right: Gary Green, Kevin Fuhriman and Bob Schrempp.	Set-up. Doug Fuhriman (left, purple shirt) and Jere Ingram (right, white shirt) look on.	Gary Green's laser level hard at work.	More modules arrive from Utah.
Mike Nelson's module trailer wears this plate.	Mike Nelson (left) gets horizontal and Sterling Moore works the level while setting up Sterling's new Mounds reversing loop.	Set-up goes into late afternoon as the layout fills up the space.	Late in the afternoon train show vendors begin their set-up in an adjoining space in the convention center hall.
Down-on view of the completed Free-mo layout.	Part of the vendor tables.	More vendors.	Artist John Winfield's vendor booth: http://www.winfieldart.com
Joe D'Elia of A-Line/Proto Power West makes the scene in the vendor area.	Josiah Pena (left) and his dad Jesus.	SD75Ms load at the coal silo flood loader.	Actor and Santa Fe fan Michael Gross (left) and Sterling Moore. Michael Gross: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343447
SD70MACs head out with loaded Utility Fuels UFIX coal gons. Mounds module set and BN coal train models by Sterling Moore.	Brian Rhoads at the Convention.	Gary Green's SD24s hauling the freight.	Gregg Fuhriman (left) and Jim Moore at the DCC table.
Bud Rogers' McCloud River train.	Doug Fuhriman runs light power.	Gary Green's El Capitan through the desert.	Mike Nelson's Union Pacific lash-up.
Bob Schrempp works Mojave Yard.	Mike Nelson handles a train.	This Bud's for you: Bud Rogers (left) and Bud Klumph	Fred Hill from the Original Whistlestop in Pasadena: http://www.thewhistlestop.com
Blaine Hadfield of Wasatch Free-mo.	Utlity Fuels trains meet.	Another image of the UFIX meet in the desert.	Ken Rhoads visiting the Free-mo set-up.
Jere Ingram having fun.	Action at Glen Frazer, California.	Overview of the Glen Frazer module set by Gregg Fuhriman.	Tim Costello with his train show loot.
Busy at the cement plant.	Texas legend "Railroad" Russ Covitt.	Gregg Fuhriman (left) and Sterling Moore enjoy nighttime operations at Mojave Yard.	Can never have too many photos of Gary Green's El Capitan. Always a crowd pleaser.
Jay Styron stopped by for a hit of Free-mo.	Jere Ingram (far right) explains that he will now channel Elvis for the remainder of the convention set-up.

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