Its Thanksgiving Week! What Train Club Open Houses are you going to this weekend??

In NE Pennsylvania: The Anthracite Hi-Railers on Black Friday from 5-9 P.M. and Sunday from 1-4 PM. (See them on Facebook for directions other dates) and the Hudson Model Railroad Club (HO) in Wilkes-Barre (Plains) on Friday from 6-9 PM. (Steam Themed) and Saturday and Sunday (Modern Era) from 12-5 P.M. (See Facebook for directions and an ample list of more open houses).  Both club's layouts highly detailed and run long trains.   I hope to get to visit the same clubs that prrhorshoecurve listed above over the holiday season.  All are within ten minutes of each other and worth the trip. 

Richmond, VA

Virginia Train Collectors had a show on Saturday and Sunday. Well attended.

The Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after Thanksgiving is an all scales event at the children’s science museum down town. All scales and a big draw.

Beginning on the following weekend, the RC3R’s will have our O scale layouts at The Great Big Greenhouse through the middle of January.

And yes, Tom Gilsdorf (aka Santa, has the beard at optimum length).

Merry Christmas.

I love this time of year!

Jerry

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Thanksgiving weekend is usually big with Train club open houses. Which ones are you going to?

Im going to the Nazareth Area Society of Model Engineers [N.A.S.M.E.] in Stockerton, PA

https://www.nasmemrr.org/

I will consider the Black Diamond Society of Model Engineers [B.D.S.M.E.] in BETHLEHEM, PA

http://bdsme.org/

And the Leigh and Keystone Valley

https://lkvmodelrailroad.com/

Anyone else for model RR clubs?

There are also several HO club layouts that are open over the next several weeks.   Here is a good list - Model Railroad Shows November 2022-March 2023 (royersfordmodular.org)

We had ours yesterday.

-Greg

I don't know if it counts as an open house, but the Allegheny West (Pittsburgh) holiday home tour includes an option to visit the layouts and displays of the late John Desantis.  While I'm hopeful that John's display will be kept intact, given his untimely passing you never know.  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend going while you still can.

https://alleghenywest.org/tour...hristmas-house-tour/ says that the tours are sold out, but tickets for the train display are still available.

Also, I'd like to suggest that people include the name of the city (and state if necessary) when posting about open houses.

Prob will go check out The Model RR club in union/springfield NJ. Kind of a family tradition, and we go to see how much (or little) has been done on the huge expansion they put on the layout building a lot of years ago and are creating an expanded layout in. Makes me feel less badly about how slow my own layout build is going. In all seriousness, they have a fun holiday 'show' on the existing layout, even if I have seen it prob 20 times, still chokes me up a bit. They are open the next several weekends.

The TMB Model Train Club of East Farmingdale New York  is having their first weekend of open houses this weekend November 26 and 27th. To see all our open house dates  for 2022-2023 and to learn more about this incredible layout please visit our website at www.tmbmodeltrainclub.com

Check out the Cherry Valley O Scale 2 Rail Open House 12/3 and 12/4 located in Merchantville Nj

Details under OGR Calendar section for more details

Thank you. John P. Dunn Sr. President CVMRR

This is where I will be! If you are in our neck of the woods please come see us!

@Texas Eagle 77 posted:

This is where I will be! If you are in our neck of the woods please come see us!

Check out our event promo here!

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So here I am at the Anthracite Model RR club in the Poconos! Not a bad layout. They seem to follow the Independent Hi-Railer specs. The small group has a Facebook page too!