Looks like a fantastic steamup Neil, big congrats!! How many attended? And can you share some reactions to your amazing layout?
Cliff,
Looked like a good turn out with beer and conversation. However I wanna know how the hell do they hide those pull strings so well. I slowed the video way down and I still can’t see them!
I also didn’t get a call from him either so I suppose he didn’t drink to much and make an ass outta himself.
The convention had 58 paid delegates, close to 70 all up with partners Cliff. I had half a dozen or so reprobates linger after the main lunch event, purely for a bit of steaming. As one happy gent (below, and the double Fairlie owner) said - ‘Welcome to the alternative convention’.
It was a great weekend Cliff, several hundred photos to sort. I’ll try and do a write up later in the week.
Cheers
N
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I think I’m ok on the first bit - the second, well no one’s said anything to my face. Yet. 
Somewhat ironically, the brown bottle in the video (contents unknown) belonged to a gentlemen from Nashville who popped over. Just sayin’… 
Cheers
N
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Neil;
Before I stopped collecting live steamers, I was coveting a double Fairlie similar to the model in your photo. It would have named Boromire. I also hoped to get another Roundhouse Beyer-Garrett and name that model Eomer. For now I am content with Aragorn.
Regards, David Meashey
Hmm run trains you say … Mother Nature said try this
A nor’easter is a large-scale cyclone that forms in the western North Atlantic Ocean and typically moves northeastward. The name comes from the direction of the winds, which blow from the northeast. Nor’easters are characterized by coastal high surf, snowfall, strong winds, and coastal northeast flow. They are more severe in the winter when cold arctic air interacts with warmer air over the Atlantic Ocean.
Two more feet on top of what we had before, no I’m not going to run away snow removal equipment on the rais just everything else
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It’s the last part of summer here Sean. NE winds typically act as a precursor to heatwaves or precede a cold front, bringing hot, dry, and sometimes dusty conditions (often called a “brickfielder”) here in SA. Originating in the arid interior, it brings extreme temperatures (often >38∘C or 100∘F) and thick red dust to southern coastal cities.
If you’re not going to run trains for us, would you at least make & post some pictures of authentic McGillicuddy snow angels or snowmen…anything cool.
Thanking you in advance.
That’s pretty rough, Sean, on top of the earlier storm. We’d finally mostly melted, and got maybe 3-4" last night. Hopefully will melt on Wednesday, maybe you’ll get some relief then too.
Nope
More on the way later this week
Enough for a snow man yet, Sean?
No time, still cleaning up
That’s a lot, but Vincent & Penny in Warwick RI got the worst of it. 36" with many drifts close to 6 foot! They haven’t seen a plow on their road since late Sunday!
Here in the protected valley on the east side of the big mountains we don’t get much unless it comes up from the south like this last one did. For this one the heavy stuff tracked east and we were above freezing for most of it. Yesterday I dug out - Maybe 4" total 
I feel their pain. 36" in my part Rhode Island. No trains running for the foreseeable future. 
The big storm a couple weeks ago we got 22" here. This past storm about 14", and getting another inch or so this morning.
That’s really tough, wow.
Someone needs to model a “Donner Party Tree,” where you shave off maybe 6" of branches from a small evergreen, starting at highest snow level. Then you can say “this is where my model people had to eat the bark one year.” You’d have the option to add, “And, for that matter, each other.”