Indianapolis O Scale and S Scale Midwest Show

Been doing Indy several years now, great show!  Seems better every year.  Looking forward to the clinics.  Close to the airport, safe free parking, nice hotel, friendly crowd.  

Will Norm Pullen and Bill Davis  be their with their 30+ tables of deals?

Last year I got several NOS Sunset engines  I missed when first offered.          

Yes, they will be there. Vendors are also listed on the Website.

We will be with 3 tables of our products. If you want to save shipping place orders up to 4 days before the meet for delivery at the show. See you there!!!

Scale City Designs posted:

We will be with 3 tables of our products. If you want to save shipping place orders up to 4 days before the meet for delivery at the show. See you there!!!

Marty, I reserved a boxcar kit, but have not ordered yet.  Will you bring to the show if I order now?

Thanks...gregg

Looking forward to it, Dan.

Pulling several items out of my own inventory, brass and otherwise, structures, fully completed scenes, and all sorts of the usual "stuff" along with the all of the back issues and such from O Scale Trains.

Hello all

Thank you Dan for sponsoring the show 

Looking forward to my first Indy show. Working  on some of the bricks to move for outside 3rd rail demonstrations at the show . Stop by and marvel at 80 year old O scale ...or laugh your choice.

Here we have a mid 30's Alexander dual motor box cab .... one motor is slightly  faster than the other fine once up to speed, but for going back and forth on 6' of track not so much ...why yes that is the reverse knob sticking through the roof just like the prototype .

See you in Indy, bring  your vintage O scale .

Cheers Carey

I may try to go being only 50 miles North of Indy.  How likely is it that there will be some junk boxes there?

Also, anyone with some Central Locomotive Works or old Saginaw parts, please bring em... especially a frame for the PRR H10 2-8-0!

Carey,

I plan to bring a couple of pre-war Oscale locos to show you but they are all converted to 2 rail now.  Saginaw, Scale Model Railways and Pratt.

Joe

Hello Joe 

Thank you very much for bringing the early O scale ..look forward to meeting you and seeing your treasures .

Cheers Carey 

Dennis,

In my experience, there are always some tables with older stuff and what not.    Of course a frame for the H10 may be low probability, but  you never know.   

There are collections coming from John Giove: Estates of Alf Modine (Cupertino, CA), Duane Matuszak (Cudahy, WI), and Wayne Hammelman (New Braunfels, TX) but what is in them I don't know.

I will be bringing a number of better traction items and kits from my own estate.......

Ok, either my watch has stopped or I'm.................

The CLW H-10 frame must be assembled from steel side frames and various cross members.  Do you have the axle bearings and dummy spring hangers that fit this frame?  If not you might be better to find a complete kit on ebay.  They show up from time to time.  Finding "Section1" for this kit by itself may be difficult.

Joe

mwb posted:

I will be bringing a number of better traction items and kits from my own estate.......

Ok, either my watch has stopped or I'm.................

BH

rrjjf posted:

The CLW H-10 frame must be assembled from steel side frames and various cross members.  Do you have the axle bearings and dummy spring hangers that fit this frame?  If not you might be better to find a complete kit on ebay.  They show up from time to time.  Finding "Section1" for this kit by itself may be difficult.

Joe

 

 

I have sections 3 & 4 and am missing the first two sections, so basically frame drivers, cylinders, side rods, motor etc.  I do keep an eye out on the bay for parts, but that is hit or miss you know.  I understand it is probably more likely that I would find a complete engine than just the drivetrain, but hey the fun is in the journey right?    If I understand correctly, the early version (Saginaw and maybe the early CLW) had cast bronze frames and the later ones were fabricated.  My tender is the later version with the brass sheet sides versus the early one with the cast tender.  Probably lots of ways to go.

I will be there representing Sunset Models / 3rd Rail / Golden Gate Depot and I have several new in box Sunset diesels at a good price with factory guarantee including a PRR FP7 dark green single stripe A unit and an A-B set of Great Northern FT units.

We will be running trains Friday night till 9 and Saturday 10-5 for those of you that would like to visit our 3-Rail Layout. We are in Atlanta, Indiana - about 20 minutes north of Carmel. 

Take I-465 North and get off at US31 - then US31 North to 296th Street and turn right - Lisa's Pie Shop is on the corner. Follow 296th Street East and it takes you into Atlanta. Right on Broadway and Right on Main. 

Saturday and Sunday is the New Earth Festival in Atlanta and there will be @600 vendors; artists and food folks here - your wife might have a good time.

Going to be on Saturday morning hopefully

Head to Indy to join all the fun ! Tables filled with O and S scale .. large hall filled with huge layouts . Something for every budget 

cheers Carey

Wish I wasn't going to miss it this year. 

Great show.  Went the last two years and had a great time.  Enjoy.

BTW, if anyone takes more pictures of the show or layouts, I'd love to see them here.

So would I

LONG DRIVE!!   MAYBE NEXT YEAR ? lOVE TO SEE MORE PHOTO'S.

 Thanks Franky-Ogee

Returned home about an hour ago. GREAT SHOW!!  I had never been to the Indy show, so I have nothing to compare to except the annual Chicago O Scale March Meet, which of course is much larger But doesn't have operating layouts in an adjacent room). Found some Decals for CB&Q caboose, and purchased some freight car trucks. Had a very fun time with friends.

Few more over all pix...

Dan,

Thanks so much for posting these photos.  It looks like they have a nice crowd attending the show.

Steve

Hey Dan, can you tell me about the gentleman with the Atlas display? Your img_4456

thanks

Behind the boxes leaning on the boxes  Pat from P&D Hobbies

Thank you Dan and Amy for doing a great job with the Indy show .    Going to the show is fun to  find a new toy for the layout, collection etc ....but also to see old friends and meet new ones.... add the seminars, layouts and the wonderful open houses  to see some incredible layouts with wonderful hosts .   

Here are some additional photos ... head to Indy next year to join in on all the fun . 

Cheers Carey 

Thanks for the photos, sure looked like a great time!

Video from the large O scale layout.

Sorry can't seem to complete upload and link.

Thank you! We appreciate that!

Dan,

Big thanks to you and the others who sacrificed their time to put together a great show like this.  I'm sure you did an excellent job just by viewing the photos and all the great comments in this thread.  Keep up the great work!

I'll be there next year!

I really enjoyed myself yesterday, I traveled to the show with a friend of mine who just recently switched from HO to O Scale, we're both members of the Cincinnati Model Railway Club, he bought 2 Atlas SD-40's and about 8 freight car's, I bought a Atlas C&O Tri-Colored RPO, and a few other things I needed, overall it was a good day, thanks again for your hard work for putting on a great show.

Jim Corbett

Cincinnati Ohio

What A Show!

Sold a ton of models,found some really neat stuff for my collection too . Dan and Amy have my vote for next year. Great service,every problem solved with a smile and immediate attention to dealers and attendees needs.

Talk about an Hor's D'oeuvre spread, nothing like it in 30 years of shows....

Look forward to next year and thanks for a well run show.

Sincerely,

Bill Davis 

I have loaded a video from: Views from The 2017 Indianapolis O and S Scale Midwest Show

Didn't make it this year, had other family obligations to tend to.  Already on the calender for next year though!   Dennis H, you must be in my neck of the woods.  I am up in Kokomo, also bout 50 miles north of Indy.  I tinker in to many scales, O 2 rail being one of the.  Have picked back up on my All Nation F3 dummy that needs drive train parts to power it.   Painting it today since the weather sucks for anything outdoors.  Looks like it was a fantastic show.  I look forward to attending in 2018.     Mike and Michele T

Hello,

thank you so much for organize and host the show. We had a really good time, the layout tours were also a great event, we enjoy it. Every layout, we visit, we had more then an warm welcome, we had the feeling, to come home to friends. 

As we told you, the show was part of our round-trip, it was more then "worth", to visit it. We can recomand it to every 0 scale enthusiast.

BTW., Funny thing, to show us in the first minute of the video :-)

thanks

kindest regards

Elmar