National Train Show 2014 on July 18, 19 and 20 in Cleveland

I should be in Cleveland that Sunday, I'll check it out.  Thanks!

I will be one of the guys running a railroad West of Chicago. 

Care to take a guess as to which one? 

I will give shinny new nickle to the first person to get it right. 

OK, I'll try. Lets see,,,,,,"west of Chicago" plus add "shinny", and we have,,,,,,,,,,,,,The California Zephyr?

"Shinny", and not "shimmy"...I hope there is no shimmy from wheel problems.  My

guess is you will be running all Rock Island brightly painted covered wagon E units?

Maybe you should check out the photo on lower portion SantaFeJim's post above. Then again, Jim's OGR Forum "name" might be a give-away?

I'll be heading up to Cleveland for the NMRA National Convention in just a few hours.  I have been to a good number of NMRA conventions in the past, and thoroughly enjoyed each one.  Looking forward to the Age of Steam Roundhouse tour tomorrow, especially since the facility is not normally open to the public.  Jerry Jacobson made a special exception for the NMRA group.

I will be visiting the show on Friday afternoon, the show's first day.  Turns out that an old friend of mine from some 40 years back, is an official of the NMRA show.  We got together these last few days and had a great time touring some RR "hot spots" around Cleveland that he wanted to photograph.  it was really great sharing "old times" about the East Troy Trolley Museum in Wisconsin where we spent some great years running big North Shore interurban cars for the general public.

I know that there won't be a lot of "0" gauge at this show, probably 90% Ho-Ho and "N" (nothing) gauge, but I will be looking for the occasional scale "0" car, locomotive or building that can be used on our more sensible 3 rail layouts.  Not too long ago, I bought a Bar Mills built up warehouse building that now occupies a prominent place on my Hi-Rail layout. 

Does anyone know if OGR will be represented with a booth at this show?  How about some of our member suppliers?

Paul Fischer

I'll be there on Friday as a guest of an HO gauge friend. Looking forward to it and especially that O gauge NYC equipment.

Been there and done that.  Discovered one O scale structure kit builder I have never seen advertise, which is my usual benefit of attending these.  And Altoona Model Works was showing an HO model of the long Thurmond station in W.Va.  We were joking about the forthcoming O scale model that would probably be four feet long.

A chain-yanker was a company named Sylvan that was offering all these HO models

of pre-1940 trucks and cars I'd love to have, and not all Furds by a long shot..

1936 Chevy, '37 Chevy, 1936 Reo Flying Cloud four door, and many, many more.

Boy would I like to see that list for O scale.