MTH's See It Hold It Run It Program kicked off in Australia this past weekend.

Dave looked like a great time, the kids looked like

they had a lot of fun.

 

THANKS, ALEX

Great thing Dave   We got two of the same sets for our upcoming open house season  We are then going to donate them to the Shriners Children Hospital

The look on the kids faces say's it all. Well done to all! Thanks for posting.

Way to go, Dave. We're looking into participating. We're thinking of giving away the set either at the Fall Open House or during the Winter Festival the City puts on in December. We gave away an MTH starter set, complete with folding table a couple of years ago at an Open House Special thanks to Arnie's Trains in Westminster, CA (http://www.arniestrains.com) for letting us have one at cost.

Matt, the O Gauge Guy donated the set to our club, we raffled it and made some good bucks for the club. We also sell BBQ and drinks, we have a "U Drive" HO layout especially built for shows where kids get to drive plenty of Thomas trains for a donation from the parents, and we ask a dollar or two donation to enter. It's quite a good fund raising weekend, with plenty of hard work put in by the membership. We normally run a few each year plus we run the Sydney Model Train Show, the biggest one of the year.

Very nice, kids and trains, doesn't get any better than that.

This extraordinary O gauge layout is always a crowd pleaser. It was built 50 years ago, members hand made the track and scratch built all the locos, rolling stock and buildings. In recent years we have added some modern track on the inside loop, and installed some new buildings, neon signs etc. What makes this layout so unique is the ability for members to run anything, finescale or coarsescale, 2 and 3 rail, AC, DC, DCS, TMCC. We can also do this on our new Modular layout.

Great job guys and gals!!

who got the sets in the states?

 

Dave    Thats a great club layout wish we had something in O here in SA, MTH is under rated or even largely unknown in Australia,which is a shame ,Im really enjoying my MTH 2 rail experience. The starter set is a great idea.

 

Stephen from Down Under    (cTR...Choose the Right)

Your club can participate. You contact MTH, they supply a RTR set at a reduced price.

As Ben said earlier, the NJ Hirailers chose to donate 2 of these sets to a hospital, or your club can do as we did, raffle it to raise funds for your club. The great thing about these sets with the remote Commander handset, is the limited function keys make it very easy for kids and learner adults to pick it up and start playing with the trains straight away. I spent the whole 2 days on the SHR stand, and most kids figured it out by themselves in a minute.

Why don't you start a club? We have branches in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and a couple of thousand members, covering all scales.

Thanks Bill, what's that about Lincoln? Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it was Grover Cleveland in his second term. It was Lincoln who introduced the internet to the telegraph service.

 

 

Great job Dave!  It certainly looks like you are enjoying your new career

Dave   A great idea , but I wouldn't  knew where to start? don't even knew who would be interested?

 

Stephen from Down Under    (cTr...Choose theRight)

our club (piedmont-triad model railroaders club) raffled off a mth r-t-r steam freight set ps3 at the great train expo in winston-salem north carolina on march 31 & april 1st. we are think about raffling another set at our upcoming shows!!!.............rogerw.