Greenberg Show, Fredericksburg VA, February 8-9

I'll be there!

Sunrise

I'm glad you posted a reminder.  My son and I and perhaps wife and daughter will be attending this year (weather permitting).  We will be there Saturday.

Who else is gonna be there?

I plan to be there Sunday, coming from the Cville area.

Does anybody know what the show hours will be this weekend and what it costs to attend?

Greenberg show will be Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm both days. $8 for adults, kids 12 and under get in free.

We made it to the show around noon today and  Parking lot was just about full.  Pleasantly surprised by the turnout, lot of kids, 2 O scale layouts in the front, 1 larger layout in the back, as well as several HO and N scale layouts. 

We were primarily there for Modern O, decent selection,  but also saw a few vendors with Postwar, S, HO, N and Z products.  Cool Russian train at one of the booths that was tinplate in appearance.  Maybe a dozen or so RTR sets by Lionel scattered around the exhibit hall, not as much MTH, and only saw one vendor with Williams (love that Blue Goose!) but he had very small supply.

Lots of books, magazines, pictures, scenery and a much larger selection of 1:43 and 0 gauge vehicles than the show we attended here 2 years ago.    Had a Waste Materials Trash truck for $5 that I  picked up but for some reason didn't purchase.  Some neat vehicles that represented the 50s and 60s selling for $5 to $20 each. 

Not as much track or Plasticville this time around either. 

Stopped at the 2nd booth on the way in and picked up 3 Amtrak Surfliner cars that match the MTH FP-59 that I already have.  Really nice dealer from NC and he held the cars for us all afternoon so we didn't have to carry them around.

My son liked an old Lionel missile car, a Flying Yankee, and a really cool Budweiser steam train with Passenger cars but it was in HO and we passed on all of these items.  He ended up buying a Model Builder magazine from 1937 and some rolling stock.

One gentleman set up a drag race track where individuals each pick out one of a dozen engines, he places them side by side on fastrack and they go head to head down a straightaway, fastest engine nets a piece of candy to the participant.  Interesting concept that attracted a decent stream of children.  Rock Island Gp-9 and the Copper Range switcher seemed to consistently win their heats.  Other diversions included a slot car race track ($3 to play), an outdoor train ride, and next door was a hot tub blowout sale.   Only a handful of people looking at hot tubs while there was  a line to get into the train show.  Trains win over hot tubs, at least on this day.

A few pictures that we quickly took with camera phone.  Will try to post the pictures of the Surfliner cars later.

We were there from 10:30-1:30. It was fun to see all the trains. There were good deals to be had and there were some bad ones, too (no different than any show).

We were very interested in the S Gauge layout because of their bascule bridge-like module and took lots of pics. It coincides with Jim Barrett's article in the newly released Run of OGR (online was released yesterday). It looked like the same hinge mechanism.

A good time!

Peter

Survived an 11 hour slog boiling out the new boiler at work. Truly exciting stuff. Sorry I missed getting to go to the show with my buds.

Gilly

My son and I were there from around 11:30-12:30.  Santa Fe VA's description was pretty much spot-on.  I was looking for some MTH stuff, maybe a brick transformer, some traction tires, a replacement 8.4v battery or BCR, a couple of obscure new 6464's.  Nothing even close.  I did see a 6-pack of MTH N&W coal cars without a price, but the guy wanted 2x what I just paid for the same set...