{"id":4677,"date":"2018-12-14T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:16:02","slug":"2018-cantigny-park-christmas-train-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/2018-cantigny-park-christmas-train-show\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Cantigny Park Christmas Train Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 8th and 9th, Brick Model Railroader members Cale Leiphart and Glenn Holland attended the 17th annual Cantigny Park Christmas Train Show in Wheaton Illinois as special guests of Brickmania and the Northern Illinois LEGO\u00ae Train Club.<\/p>\n

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Show Flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cantigny Park<\/a> is\u00a0a 500-acre\u00a0park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill<\/a> and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick<\/a>, publishers of the Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/i>, and is open to the public. Cantigny includes large formal and informal gardens, two museums, a 27-hole golf course, a picnic grove, a playground, hiking paths, restaurants and a gift shop.<\/p>\n

Cantigny Park Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Each year, for the past 17 years, the Northern Illinois LEGO\u00ae Train Club<\/a> has been invited to set up their train display for a special Holliday event the second weekend of December. Over the years the show has grown to include vendors and special displayers in addition to NILTC’s own ever growing display.<\/p>\n

NILTC Website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brick Model Railroader and Brickmania<\/h4>\n

This year Brick Model Railroader was invited to the Cantigny event as special guests of Brickmania<\/a>\u00a0who has been one of the regular vendors at the show for several years. BMR has been working with Brickmania to produce a kit for the United State Army Transportation Corp. S160 class Steam Locomotive which Brickmania will be selling through their online and retail stores.<\/p>\n

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BMR’s original prototype model of the S160 leading one of Brickmania’s preproduction test build models through the NILTC yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The United States Army Transportation Corps<\/a> S160 Class<\/b> is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America. When Brickmania approached us here at BMR about designing a train model for them, the S160, with its World War II military background seemed like an excellent fit. It plays to our train modeling expertise, and Brickmania’s military model market.<\/p>\n

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