After canceling the Dec 2013 Casey Jones Chapter TCA Train show due to the ice storm that never occurred our December 2014 show took place yesterday without a hitch.
Here are a few pictures.
The calm before the show
We elected new officers during this show. To start, we recognized two of our out going officers for their years of hard work and dedicated service to our TCA Chapter.
Frank Crawford was recognized for holding the position of secretary for many years and was presented a plaque for his service to the chapter.
Zee Smith, our out going president was also recognized for 20 years of service to the Casey Jones Chapter. Zee has held every elected position in our chapter, even serving in two positions at times when no one else would serve. Zee was home ill and could not attend the show. We called him at home and presented him with his plaque.
And now to the show.
We had many table full of trains.
John and Bill Autrey had treasures from October York to display and plenty of post war Lionel trains to sell.
Here is a 6817 Scraper. The 394 beacon is in the original box, with all original packing and the original price!
They also had a Geiger Counter made by Lionel. I remember using one of these back in my Army days, along with PRS 4 and PRS 7 mine detectors made by Lionel. Also Bill and John had The "Air, Land and Sea set brand new in the original box.
The Casey Jones High Railers set up our "Module Lite" layout - four curves, and four straight sections.
I will post a short video of the layout.
Chuck Campbell brought a layout with both Standard gauge track and O gauge track.
Our kids Club activities were well attended
The guys at the front door must have fallen asleep at the switch. Two individuals from Arkansas (as a rule we strictly prohibit anyone from Arkansas into our shows, especially those from Mountain Home
) were discovered wandering about the tables. We determined that they were of questionable character, and definitely of ill repute!
These guys were ID'ed as none other than Alan Arnold AKA OGR Ad man,and his good friend Mike Burnside from Jonesboro, Arkansas. Nep Malory can be seen behind them making sure they behave themselves.
Thanks Alan and Mike for traveling to Memphis to attend our show.
If anyone from OGR shows up at your train show you just have to get your picture taken with them!
Here is yours truly and Alan.
After the train show I had the honor of taking Alan,his wive and Mike out to the house to see my layout and then out to Millington, TN to see Bill Norvell's outstanding O gauge layout.
It was a long day with lots of trains, and lots of good friends.
Have a good week.
Richard
