Edison Greenburg finds

[Anonymous]

WOW!!! What a show!

What did you guys find at the Edison Greenburg show?
I got Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004. I am installing it right now.
I also got a lubricating kit. I almost got a hobo handcar too.


I stopped a the TAMR Table. But I forgot to ask for you Chris. Sorry. You guys had a nice layout. If you saw sombody walking around in a Green Jets Jersey,#94, that was me. I was really impressed by the huge N gauge layout with that really long frieght train. It was atleast 200 cars long!

[Anonymous]

I found a very nice 1993 early Mike's Train House Brochure for my collection. BTW, I am always "looking " for early MTH paper prior to 1994. "Nudge, nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean??.. Ha! ha! Ed Smith Ocean County , Jersey

[Anonymous]

I got a nice little accessory from Dave at the Plasticville table. This was a busy show-I think I'm going back tomorrow to browse some more.

Jack Grund

[Anonymous]

I enjoyed the show as usual, but didn't really discover any great O-Gauge buys or finds. Still, I managed to bring home three shopping bags of train goodies. Most of my purchases were senic accessories, such as a Korber Models Stone Arch Bridge kit, a bunch of plastic O-gauge windows (for future kit-bashing projects), lots of O Scale sized figures (both unpainted and painted). And an assortment of senic materials such as ground foam, etc. Prices were all over the place, from full retail to give-a-way prices. So I took my time, shopped carefully and then bought a good supply of materials at great prices.

Kudos are in order for the members of the various groups who set up operating 3-rail layouts and working displays, such as the Raritan Valley Hi-Railers; Independent Hi-Railers, and the TMCC Demo Group.

Hats off also to Dave, Ed and Bob (Deb) of the Central Jersey DCS Demo Group for putting on such a great informative display of DCS. Their enthusiasm for the hobby is unmatched and in my opinion their operating layout was the highlight of the show. It was worth the price of admission just to hang out at their booth and see these guys interact with the crowd.

Unfortunately, I got there with a headache that just wouldn't go away. And the strong smell of locomotive smoke in the layout areas made my headache only pound more.

I never run smoke on my modern era locos. Let me drop a smoke pellet into one of my postwar locos and I'm a happy guy.

Anyway, in a little more than two hours I managed to fill three shopping bags with O-gauge goodies and was in the car, with the window cracked open, and headed north on I-287 by 12:20 pm.

If I was to compare this show to last week's Allentown's First Thaw show, I would say that there were better buys at Allentown. But Greenberg's Edison Show had better O-gauge operating layouts. Still there is no such thing as a bad train show.
Some shows are just better than others.

Next weekend I'll be visiting the Montvale Train Show at St. Joseph's High School in Montvale, NJ. It's a two day show, but I'll stop in on Saturday when the doors open at 9:00 am.
BillFromWayne
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