Pictures and info from the Amhearst Train Show in Springfield

[Anonymous]

Aggro that was so funny I waas just laughing for a few minutes before I started typing. I did not se Armchairdude this weekend. He is lucky to. [;)] I would have had a great time!! LOL Anyway Paul in MArch when you have your show I will be there too. I do alot of driving to go ssee what I want to see.

There was one thing I forgot to mention about the show. I really wanted to get two items this weekend till I saw their cost and said "HELL NO" 1. The gate crossing system complete 2.one or two sets of traffic signal lights for my roads. Now when I saw the prices I wanted to slap the sellers in their head.
Crossing gates alone were $39.99
Crossing gate motors, detectors, and what ever else in that bag $119

So for that set up alone was $160!!! They are crazy and stupid at that cost.

Signal lights 4 way $62.00
signal light operator thingy $38.00

So that is $100 for one four way street.

After I saw that I was so pissed. That was at Berkshire Junction. Wathc out from those guys. I will not be forced to make my own crossing gate motors and all. At tchtechnology.com you can get the detectors for the crossing gates or anything you use them for, for only $7.95. Check that site out and see what they have. I bought two for my set of flashing crossing gate I got for $15. I will just not have any gates coming down thats all. SO what.

[twhite]

Aggro--no, Stuck was at my place all weekend. I was sure glad when he left, WHEW!
[:-^]
Tom

[AggroJones]

Hey Al, did you come across StuckArmchairing at the show? [(-D] [(-D] [(-D]

[Paul3]

It was nice to meet you, Al, thanks for the compliment. I hope to see you in March at our next show/open house. [:)]

BTW, in the third pic down from the top, the guy in the blue jacket with the buff sleeves with his back to the camera is Peter Palica, a member of my club and scenery guru. He must have been getting some new ideas for our layout in that pic!

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[streettrains]

oh yeah.. think I saw TOny Koester there.....

[streettrains]

HEy Biggie,
I was there Saturday.. loved your club's layout!!! All the other layouts were great too... got soome ideas for mine!!!!

I got some cool stuff..
didn;t get my DCC s system... wanted to do more research...
Got 3 DVD's from Broken Knuckle Videos..
This the Guilford rail system
CSX/Conrail to the Berkshires
Inside Selkirk..
I love there DVD's

also got a biker bar thang from JL inovatives
I got this and that...
but loved the show.....

great pics!!!

[Anonymous]

Hey guys. This weekend was surely off the hook!! I had the greatest time. I often tell people that this time of year I get the same exact feeling that I used to get when I was young and Christmas was weeks and days away. Its that great!!

Ok So I am a member of the Mohegan and Pequot Model railroad club and we arrived in Springfield on Thursday night to get up early Friday to set up our Layout. If you were there this weekend we were in the Young Building and I was the Black guy wearing a red sweater and alot of Bling Bling with two Tags with "BIG AL" I did get to meet alot of guys who saw the name and immediately knew who I was and it was cool.

On Saturday the turnout was 10,000+ people. On sunday the total for the weekend was announced at 16,900+ People. I was able to see a good friend of mine Paul Cuttler and the guys from His club South Shore RR Club. Paul you are so cool!!

I made a few good purchases
1. Soundtraxx 820041 decoder for the Athearn Genesis SD70M with the speaker was a total asking price of $122 I haggled the hell out the guy until he agreed to $97!! I was happy then.
2. I got a Athearn Genesis SD70M BNSF silver and red for $25 assembled
3. A Athearn GEnesis Union Pacific SD70M Union PAcific RTR for cheap at $35
Those were my major purchases and I got other minor things too.

The deals there overall were so bad guys!! Very sucky deals. I will not lie. You honestly could do much better all day long on Ebay. Here is a great example, Everyone was selling those Athearn Genesis SD70M and Macs and all genesis for $95+ On ebay they sell new for at most $80. There were very litle deals. Tony from Tonys Train was a short little MR Know it all know nothing Snob. I did not like his attitude towards some of the customers there. I was just watching him deal with them and got mad. SO to investigate his attitude further I asked about the Soundtraxx decoder that he was selling for $114 and could he do it for $110 and "he got that attitude and said his prices was the best there and that is the best he could do. And when I said a guy was selling the same one for $111 in the Stroh Building he got mad and told me to go to him. So I did of course and came back and had to prove it to him. I put it right in his face and the price was there $111. He was real pissed then.

I met alot of nice guys who just were there selling things and displaying their club layouts. I stood out a whole lot. I was wearing a red sweater, Alot of Gold Necklaces, gold Wathc and bracelets, Baggy Clothes, and a bit darker than the rest. I have a good attitude and a very cool guy so I made all around me very comfortable. I love talking with people. I spoke to alot of people when they came over to our layout display in the Young building next to where they were holding the Clinics. Here are a handfull of pictures from the weekend. Enjoy

This is my clubs layout and the big guy with the beard is Bill Evans a member in my club also. everyone was thinking he is my dad. They all called him my old man. Funny huh


This is a club in Mass. They were very nice and all. That engine there cost $15,000!! Way too much for my blood.


This display was in the Stroh Building and it was good looking too.


Just a random picture I took in the Stroh building. That guy with the red hat is a member from my club too.


This Nscale club is out of New york and they had a nice diplay. One guy had a jar of fingers over his module stated they are the fingers they cut off if you touch his module.



Here are the fingers


This is me as we are packing up to leave on Sunday. Bling Bling