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Post by fishbelly on Nov 7, 2020 18:42:23 GMT -8
Spent the day at the Neuse River Model Railroad Club Train show today. They hold it every year here in Raleigh on the first weekend in November. The group I run with set up their massive modular layout and it is coming along well. More modules have completed or near completed scenery. Other new modules have been started. It ran pretty much flawlessly all day. The electronics guys have that thing dialed in.
I picked up some really good deals. The most expensive freight car I bought was $7.00. All the rest were in the $5.00 range. Not your current batch of high end fine scale fidelity cars, but the cars I am looking for and I am happy with them. I also picked up some motive power that I have wanted to work on for a number of years. I was just afraid to pull the trigger on them because they were way below my standards. Now though it is time and with what I am doing in the hobby right now, they fit is with my personal challenge to take the models of yore that used to be considered state of the art and turn them into respectable runners. I picked up two Atlas/Roco GP40's and one high short hood GP38. The price on these were low and I was able to talk him down even more.
I am working on them now and for me it is so much more fun doing this stuff over all that fine scale RPM stuff I used to do. Just enjoying the freedom.
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Post by riogrande on Nov 8, 2020 4:34:29 GMT -8
There is a small train show in Winchester VA next Saturday. Might try to go. Nice that a few shows are starting to be held. The big shows may be quite a while yet.
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Post by Gary P on Nov 13, 2020 6:33:14 GMT -8
Our Governor (NY) just put the kibosh on things, again. I don't expect many trains shows locally for quite a while. He even limited gatherings in our own home to 10 people!!! Like that can be enforced...
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Post by valenciajim on Nov 23, 2020 17:04:27 GMT -8
Our Governor (NY) just put the kibosh on things, again. I don't expect many trains shows locally for quite a while. He even limited gatherings in our own home to 10 people!!! Like that can be enforced... We are headed that way in California as well. We won't see robust train shows until the vaccines are available and people feel safe to go out again.
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Post by lvrr325 on Dec 3, 2020 22:15:06 GMT -8
Upstate NY got three train shows. Fulton on it's normal date, a show in East Aurora on the Hamburg date and Binghamton, two weeks after it's normal date (some issue dating back to March). I did Fulton and Binghamton; Fulton I haven't done in 20 years so no idea how far from normal it was. Binghamton was down by 2/3 to 3/4 of normal.
The East Aurora show was put on by the auction house there, they did one previous to this that got like 400; it was too far to drive to risk on a two day show.
Poughkeepsie had their show scheduled right up to about a week or two prior and cancelled.
I normally keep track on Railroad.net and everyone else either cancelled early, or never tried to put on their shows.
2021 looks like more of the same, Utica is on hold, Batavia and Amsterdam are tentatively opposite each other, and I expect more cancellations or no attempt made to put the show on. I can list out when the shows probably will be based on past years, but I'm not sure there's a point in it. The only show that will almost certainly happen is the Fulton spring show and they don't have a date settled yet, either week before or week after Lockport.
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