Did anyone get 3d scanned for printing themselves this year?
I don’t believe they were at this show, Bill. It’d be cool to do that though. Scott’s mini looks good!
Here’s one final video for everyone to enjoy: Big Green featuring 25 different trains including @capecodtodd 's schnabel. There’s a few other videos to check out on my YouTube channel too, if you haven’t yet.
I was able to share some of my 3D printed parts with club members yesterday, too. I am happy to report that a few even made it onto modules for the day!
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It was great to see guys I have not seen in over 4 years. 2 or 3 guys from LSC that I had not yet met. Just really good to renew old friendships. Bob, Cliffie, Jon and I sat and stared at each other. Glad to finally meet Stan Ames. The Schnable was unbelievable! Plenty of room to walk around and watch trains run. It made me feel good to be with really good friends to motivate me to work on my trains
That was the highlight. Otherwise the place was very large, but very vacant. It was sad to see so few paying customers.
I just hope they can continue to do this.
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John, I thought it was pretty cool to see you put a whistle post in front of your moving train and then make it whistle. I should have watched more to see if you did that around the layout, haha! 
It was great to see everybody at the show. Im curious about total attendance. My understanding is that Saturday was just shy of 900, but I don’t know Sunday’s total. Maybe @Stan_Ames will chime in.
Unfortunately, Cliff, my train doesn’t whistle at the moment. I recently bought a new speaker for it but it was too big. But I know what train you’re talking about! haha When you grabbed me I was headed towards the yard to do some switching, that’s why I had my remote in hand.
I am going to bring more signs for next show and share with more club members. I really like the concrete posts though, they turned out pretty nice!
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I second this. I’d like to know, too. I haven’t heard anything yet.
Yep, and Al. Great to see you too, Lou.
Let’s see, with Sean, Todd, Dan And John W., and Stan & Deb, that’s 11 there for LSC.
Have I missed anyone?
OK, I guess it was all in my head… however, someone whistled, so maybe I confused things…
Whenever you do get your whistle going, it would be a good gag to just keep putting your whistle post in front if your loco, and lettin er rip. At least it would be a teaching moment for those who didn’t know what a whistle post was!
Cliff, It all depends on whether you also heard, ’”Come here often?’ or ”What’s your ‘Star Sign?’”
A few more photos, starting with an attempt at a pano of the Big Green. The red arrow is at its opposite side.
Another panorama attempt, standing near teh LSC tables (to the near left). That’s Sean’s trestle bent jig.
The modules these guys make are often quite amazing in their own right. Especially considering they have to hump them in and out for the event, and store them somewhere. My hat is off to these folks, and all those who put together the many, many, modular layouts present.
I’d like to point out this little 7/8" scale train. The gentleman explained that it was an “estate railroad” that brought coal in to the power plant on some rich person’s property. Very cute. The amazing thing to me was that most of the car bodies began as craft boxes / crates from Michael’s, with some walls being cut down, and the remains being glued atop others. Quite clever and convincing.
About that 2-minute coal train that Jon posted a video on, here’s a still shot of how many cars were involved. Yeah, all 3 tracks’ worth.
Bill, I made a point to look at the kid’s modeling area, but since I had to leave early (for a 7 our drive home), I had to be content with these shots. Their project began as a flat car, with the cars being donated by Charlie Ro / USA Trains.
The object I think was to first plank the thing, and then build a load for it. In this shot, you can see bins of random load candidates.
And though there weren’t many kids, those present appeared to be having a great time.
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A few of the other New Hampshire club folks post on her occasionally. Eric Reuter and Scott Suleski are two.
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Thanks John. I wish I’d have met them, but maybe next time.
I guess that makes 13 of us LSC’ers there… and counting.
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perhaps in January I’ll just stick one to the front of my loco and blow the whistle non-stop, Cliff. Does that sound good? lol
Thanks for all the photos, too, Cliff.
The kids thing was a great idea. I was able to haul some of the kids’ cars on Big Green behind Toby on Sunday and the kids loved it. I heard parents say that the activities were their favorite part of the show.
Edit: Hey look! I’m in the back of that last pic. I guess that’s gotta be my first photo of me on LSC.
Larry Otis and Nico Corbo would occasionally post here too, and they were at the show.
Wow, only 900 paying customers on Saturday? That does not bode well for the future of the show and that is a real shame.
I think the consensus on the poor turn out was due to the day being so nice but could it be more? Unless you are already into G, getting into it is an expensive proposition that young families cannot do. It could also be due to the fact that many of us have so many trains that we are honestly asking ourselves, do we really need more? I know that is Blasphemy! but I’m at that point now.
I tried to do my part at the show but only found a small LGB car for $10 and a bag of grab irons from USAT for $4. I did sell some track and bought $20 in raffle tickets.
The show was great and I think we all appreciate the effort and expense it takes to put it on but it has to be prosperous for the vendors and the club or it won’t happen again.
I wonder if the show is held too late in the Spring? The January show runs the risk of a Blizzard which happened one year but this show suffered from a nice warm sunny day. Maybe they should push if back to early April?
It was a long day by the time I got home but it was a good day and I really enjoyed it.
I know some people bring there own food but I buy from the venders there to help show a profit instead of a loss for the hosts
I believe the total # you quote is all paid and support personnel, vendors and club members supporting layouts, that is how they count in January. so how many folks supporting big green?
do not know Sundays #s but they will include the support staff as well.
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Thank you @Cliff_Jennings and @Hines for your nice comments and photos of the Making Trains Fun youth clinics at the NELSTS last weekend. Over the weekend 36 children participated in the flat car clinics and 25 in the building diorama clinics.
After each flat car clinic, the New Hampshire Garden Railway Society graciously allowed us to put the cars on their Big Green modular layout to run the children’s cars. The children along with their parents and grandparents were excited to watch their cars roll down the tracks! Thank you to Jeff Heath and John Wilda from the New Hampshire Garden Railway Society for operating the locomotives to pull the cars.
The youth clinics are free to all that participate. We have wonderful and generous support by many people in the large-scale trains community. Charlie Ro, Jr. from USA Trains, donated all the flat cars used during the clinics. Robby Dascotte, from RLD Hobbies donated an “A-frame” house and a water tank which were used as door prizes during the building clinics.
At the end of each flat car clinic, there was a drawing for a $50 gift card to Charles Ro Supply Company.
Teya Caple-Woods, Larry Otis, Nico and Vinny Corbo, Nick Paolella, Amherst Railway Society and Westchester Toy Trains and Hobbies provided many items used during the clinics. Thank you to each of them for their support. We appreciate everyone that made monetary donations to support this program so it can continue in the future. On Saturday Nico Corbo, from 4TrackRR, surprised a five-year old boy, with a strong love of trains, by gifting him a G-scale starter set to get him started in the G-scale train hobby. He was thrilled beyond belief!
We welcome anyone that has questions or wants additional information about the Making Trains Fun program to please contact us at [email protected] or by visiting our website or facebook page.
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That was a fantastic addition to the show & I’m glad I could help out and pull a train for the program on Sunday.