From the hijacking of Ken’s thread about his Raised Layout was born the idea of a Nostalgia thread.
The Big Trains List - who was/is a member. Answer - your old
What’s your earliest picture, other than the one with Fred and Gordy in shorts?
Dig through your files, you might remember something, or not.
Rooster was having a rough year.
Spring molt?
Well, even if I was around LSC long enough to have “old memories”, I wouldn’t have them. Some days I cant remember where I was yesterday.
What a great idea; who thought this up ?
I’ll dig through my picture archives over the weekend, when I’m not busy delivering locomotives.
We can always count on Rooster for pictures. Although I dont think one belongs there.
You guys need to tell the stories that go with these great pictures.
For starters; this was one of the times that we figured out how to deduct the cost of the trip. It was all volunteer hours for The Freinds of the East Broad Top. We had EBT videos running, handed out literature and talked up the EBT to anyone who would listen. FEBT provided all the materials and upon receiving a report issued a letter thanking for the tax deductible volunteer service. Talk about a win–win 
Edit to add: Those jeans I’m wearing are just a lot looser these days (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
Okay, you want pictures to go with the story or the other way around.
Once upon a time, back in 2000 we all started going to the ECLSTS. By 2002, we got bored talking to other people having fun running their layouts. We decided to build our own layout the Timesaver. Ron Wenger gave us a place in “the Alcove”. An assumed organization was created called the “International Society of Large Scale Model Railroaders” or ISLSMR pronounced 'is less more". If you paid money you got a fancy shirt, if you didn’t pay the money, you didn’t get the shirt" another lesson in Capitalism. It didn’t matter, all were welcome. People from different parts of the Country and another Country started getting together. There were cupcakes and fermented beverages were consumed. People had fun, people wanted more fun and so the “Drag and Brag” became official. People started gathering at other people’s layouts, the fermented beverage destroyed some of the brain cells that would allow some people to remember where these places were. but they new they had had fun.
There was a guy nicknamed “Rooster”, I found a picture that I thought looked like him. When I saw it I spit coffee out my nose on to the confuser screen. I posted the picture, with the permission of our benevolent dictator, and “Rooster” spit something all over his confuser screen. Don’t know what it was.
Friar Fred got talking to some ladies(?) that were at the bar in the old Holiday Inn Holidome during a bowling convention and is the same place now only fancier and called Wyndham Gardens. Hard to imagine there was once a “Tuba Solo” there, but it happened. I think the carpet is still the same.
Jan caught an engine falling off the big layout in front of “the Alcove”. Took two years to figure out who she was, but they thanked her.
We had a dinner in Nepean, Ontario, ouside of Ottawa. 40 people at one table with a pissed off waitress.
Two carloads of us trapsed through a guy’s yard to see a traction engine, west of Ontario, in Carolton Place.
Heard a noise outside of the Holidome and I met Jon’s son, Matt, running his r/c car.
The stuffed scrod at the Lyndon Diner was to die for, until Andy found out they put spinach in it.
Some of these descriptions may apply as captions to some of the pictures.
We’ve still got a cat named “Shadow”, because Doug and Skip had to pet it in our back yard.
Lou made everybody stand with a grease board, so he could put faces with names.
1:1 trains go by outside the Alcove and we have the best place to see them.
Gary is the only guy that models in 1:24. Yes, he has an “Is Less More” shirt, Founding Member.
Honey Brown is the official beer, unless Fred can get somebody else to provide it free. We are extremely loyal.
Stephen Podwoski doesn’t like to be called Steve.
Bob used to have lots of hair.
KVRwy Local rolling through northern New Jersey, extreme northern New Jersey on their one day of Summer.
“Tuckerton Rail Car” headed back from the shore with a stiff sea breese.
Many ECLSTS trips start with a trip to Orbisonia and the EBT.
Not all of these guys are still with us. Yes, Bob had Hair. I think, Paul, Doug. Bob, unknown, maybe Ralph, Gordy and Bud.
The Southeast Large Scale Train Show, ran 2 years. Timesaver and Inglenook in the middle. Perry, Ga. was nice, but no Alcove and you can’t talk after you eat the Key Lime Pie.
Her Dad came by this year to tell me her college classes stop her from coming to the show with him. The picture is I think from 05. Lots of the kids, or there parents stop by to say “HI”.
Jane Clarke dispatching OPs on the KVRWY.
You are gonna get your ass whipped for that last pic^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I hope Andy gets some video of the beating (in the bathroom just like dad used too do)
OMGram …digging through pics …I cannot believe you started this thread(good stuff) …I’m passing the can of worms you opened to someone else unless I get some time to load what I have.
