Glad you all like the pics!
I'm no photographer that's for sure, but you get the general idea. I think I got lucky in terms of not having people in shot. I didn't get in before the gates opened, but I did do the rounds early in the day. It is also possible that attendance is still down a little from pandemic concerns, but even so there seemed to be plenty of people.
I'm afraid I didn't think to look and see the model year on the Southbend. It was actually kind of shoved into a corner, and wasn't even really displayed properly.
Overall, a really pleasant event. I had a long chat with the owner of one of the steam tractors. As a designer of pressure vessels as well as model engineering enthusiast I was curious about what he hoops he had to jump through in terms of inspection and certification, so he told me all about that, plus I was poking my nose in on cost of ownership, which you can imagine is very high, so he was telling me about his long term step by step plans for restoration and maintenance of the traction engine. Fascinating stuff. Owning a piece of equipment like that is very much a labour of love and very much an all consuming passtime - you don't get to have any other side hobbies if you want to make progress.
