I am going to Akron on Sunday. maybe find something that will catch my eye.
Wayne
Jeff,
I won't be going to the Akron train show. However, if you do go (or anyone one else), let us know how it was.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I will be going sunday IF..work does not call to do a trip. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I do not get called cause this will be my first time for akron.
mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
I made it to the show today. It was small but the attendance was reasonable. It takes up one room at the convention center, which is about the size of one of the larger buildings at the Berea show. There were not a lot of vendors but I was able to find a number of rare items. One vendor has quite a supply of Hubert's rolling stock. A guy in front of me picked up 30-40 pieces of N scale rolling stock. Also a couple of the vendors had pretty good sales like 50% off everything on a table, buy one item get 50% off of any additional similar items. The HO modular was impressive in that they were running coal drags of close to 100 cars. Overall I think the $7 fee was a bit steep, given the relatively small event but some of the sale prices helped cover the cost. Parking was free. I parked in the convention center garage and came across the walkway. I won't say this one is a must see event but if you have some spare time and are near the Akron area, you may find a few items and support the industry..
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I made it to the Akron show today Sunday. It was a bit dissapointing but I scored on 3 W&LE gondolas I had been hunting. It was the buy one get one at 1/2 price booth. I would like to applaud "The Miami Valley" modular guys for a nicely done modular layout. BTW they ran the coal drag, it had 96 units counting the 4 locos and caboose. Every hopper had a differant number and had a coal load. I saw 4 laps without a mishap.The modular layout was one of the best I have seen including the Norwalk guys at Berea.
Thanks
For me it was not really worth the drive. I see the n scale modular at every medina show. The ho guys were awesome. Learned how to make a drop bridge so no duckunders will be on my future layout. They were all very friendly and I think I talked to each one of them for some time. They even had the industrial rail doing switching manuevers and had a double headed steam passanger train running. Very impressive layout. Think I might have see jktrains(jerry) but he was out the door before I caught up to him.
After hearing people mention this HO layout in a couple of threads, anyone have any pictures to post?
Ya know the derned camera was in my pocket but I was so engrossed in talking to the guys and watching the 100 car coal train and the 39 car circus train that I never got any pics. Was kicking myself when I got home.