The club's grandest event of the year is the county fair.  During the four-day fair that lasts throughout the long Labor Day weekend, the club members show off their best trains and work to keep the railroad running 12 hours a day for four days.  Hundreds of visitors come to see the trains run and to view the improvements made to the layout since the year before.  Here are some photos, taken on a digital camera (no flash) by club member Bruce Petrarca, of the trains in action during the fair this year.  Enjoy!

Grand Canyon Railway coach on the House track at Timber Creek.  The junction with the HOn3 narrow gauge line is seen in the background.

At the Mountain Pacific Lines' engine terminal and roundhouse, still under construction.

One of the club's "add trains," which displays local sponsors of the club, zooms around on the "upper loop" during the fair.

A very busy Flag Yard, with trains awaiting departure prior to opening the doors for the fair.

A BNSF mixed freight rolls out of Flag Yard.

An "aerial view" of the Mountain Pacific Lines, with some on-lookers outside the windows to the left.  I count at least six trains in motion within this scene.

A close-up of the club's creative fund-raising scheme, the "add train" with its larger-than-life rolling billboards.

A local switcher at Timber Creek shifts around add-train cars.

A view of the San Francisco Peaks in the background, Timber Creek station in the foreground.  Notice the giant red track-cleaning vacuum placed behind the station, not quite to scale.