NOW HAVING BREAKFAST AT EAT'N PARK

Maybe I'll bring my MTH RK Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 and possibly, if its ready, the Lionel GP-20 I've been working on for the past 2 weeks (cleaning the shell, painting the frame, cleaning the motor, possibly replacing brushes, and cleaning up the e-unit).  Not sure that thing will pull too much though

Hey! I wanna play, too. I just got permission to....er......uh....I made a command decision to attend! 

I can't wait to watch Jimmy Sutter confuse the waitress/waiter.

Rick....please make me a name tag. My name is Tom Shirey....that's spelled...capital T-o-m  capital S-h-i-r-e-y  thank you!

I will bring one of my "creations" to run.

Thanks to Patrick H and Norm for their efforts. Thanks to Rick for the name tags. 

see yinz on Saturday.....Tom in PGH

Mike, please bring your Yoder 44 Tonner!  I've always wanted to that model!

Thanks,

Stack

So many wonderful people are now coming. It just keeps getting better. What a great day this should be.

jim sutter,

   You know because of what I did for living that I am not a big group kind of person,

but I got to agree with you Jim, I am really looking forward to this breakfast meeting. Looks like a lot of really decent people are going to attend, this should be a real nice time.

PCRR/Dave

OK

Rick

OK, THIS MORNING I STOPPED IN AT EAT'N PARK TO SPEAK WITH A MANAGER ABOUT OUR SATURDAY PLANS.  OF COURSE THIS PERSON WAS NOT THE MANAGER THAT I SPOKE WITH ON MONDAY,BUT EVERYTHING IS A GO !   I WILL BE THERE EARLIER ON SATURDAY TO PUT IN OUR NAME FOR OUR SPOT IN THE ROOM.  IT SHOULD BE VACATED BY 10AM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER.  THERE IS SEATING FOR UP TO 32 PEOPLE.

WE'LL SEE ALL OF YINZ ON SATURDAY,RAIN OR SHINE.

NORM

Norm,

   Great, thanks for handeling the reservations, I really appreciate it!

See you around 9:30 Saturday the 23rd at Eat'n Park.

PCRR/Dave

This was a great idea!  Thanks to all the organizers and invitations, see yinz at Eat n' Park an' nat!

Stack

Count me in!

Thanks to Patrick and Norm and anyone else who worked this out.  I will be glad to meet all of you.  I have an MTH Hudson and an MTH SD70ACE I will bring along.  However, I will be just as happy to watch everyone else's trains run!

I am working on getting there.  It's uncertain whether I'll have a vehicle.  I had an offer for a ride too so I'll see what gos.

I hate to say maybe but...maybe.

I hope you can make it Marty. Be nice to see ya again and the 844.

If you guys have room for a couple more, my son Max, and I would like to attend.

We can bring a legacy loco or two as well.

Thanks,

Mike Graziani

graz,

  Mike no problem, come & bring Max along, hope Rich C sees this and makes you guys

some name tages.

Will see everyone tomorrow at Eat'n Park for breakfast and Train talk.  Remember your stuff for show and tell and to run on Patrick H's incredible layout.

This should be a geat time everybody, see you there!

PCRR/Dave

It looks like there will be a good number of us in attendance.  Remember that there are only 32 seats.  Some of us may have to be seated outside of the room.

Norm

Norm,

   I do believe we are ok, looks like about 28 people, Rich should have the final number.

PCRR/Dave

No prob regarding the seating gents. Max and I may be a little late to E&P anyway.

I may just grab some coffee while there.

Looking forward to it.

I do have a question however - I've never run our stuff on anyone else's layout. It's a legacy engine. Is it best that I bring my Legacy remote? And if so, will it communicate with Patrick's existing Legacy base?

Thanks,

Mike

If you bring your remote, you just have to search for Patrick's base when you turn it on (it will prompt you to search if it doesn't find a base on the channel you have it currently set on).

I take my remote over there every time I go to play trains.

Andy

Thanks Andy. Much appreciated.

Won't be long till our breakfast and Train Day at Patrick's will be here. I know Patrick has been busy this week doing some things to his layout. I ran trains there Wed. and just left my engines there. I will have something special for Show and Tell.  Hope someone takes a lot of pictures for the Forum so others can see how our Special Day was.

Hi Guyz, I'm back!  Just got home from  the G scale show at York.  The latest count that I have is 26.  I may be off by 1 or 2 or a few but I have plenty of name tags.  If I missed anyone I will get you on Saturday.

I hope we are still on for 10 am?

See y'all there.  Rick

How was the show; sorry I missed it.

Was MTH and Accucraft there; any new engines from either?  MTH has really slowed down as far as G Scale is concerned.

See you tomorrow; thank you.

Rick,

I thought it was 1030?  Bring a new purchase along!!

Mike 

Breakfast is 10am and Patrick's after. 

I'll miss out. My daughter is over and I haven't seen her in a few weeks. Have fun guys. Hopefully next time. 

Mike,

   Breakfast is at 10:00 AM this time buddy.

PCRR/Dave

Well I'm glad I said something or I would've been late!!  Shows how much I pay attention!

A "BIG" thank you to Norm for taking the time to arrange our breakfast at the Eat N' Park restaurant in Murrysville. Another "BIG" thank you to Pat for having all of us over to his home to see his fabulous layout. It was especially nice to see so many familiar faces. Brought back a lot of good memories. Memories that I will always have. Thanks again to each and everyone of you for the wonderful time I had today.

Your not getting off that easy Jimmy  Where are the pictures!!!

OK Bye Bye now

Sorry Ben, I didn't have my camera with me. However, some of the other fellows did. Hopefully, they will post pictures from our day.

Well, breakfast at Tiffany's (I mean Eat-N-Park) is over.

Thanks to everyone that came.  I think all had a great time.  I know I did.  I made a lot of new friends and train buddies today. 

OGR you should be proud of the people on your site.  Great guys!!!!!  Sorry, ladies, we didn't have any ladies present except for Patrick's wife.  She is great too.

Patrick, here's a big THANK YOU for having me to your beautiful home and fantastic layout.  THANK YOU for the lunch, also. 

Hope we can do this again someday soon, Rick

A few pictures from Patrick's layout.   My Weaver E-8's and  GE 44 tonner.  What a great way to spend a Saturday.   Thank you Patrick and all.  Mike CT

What a GREAT TIME! Thank you to Norm for starting this whole thing off! Thanks to Rick for the name tags! Thanks to Patrick for opening his house and layout to us. Oh yeah...... Thanks for lunch too Pat!

A good time with good people. It was good to see some familiar people, and also meet some new ones. A large variety of different trains running. All out good time!

We should definitely try to do this again.

Sorry my other South Hills friends missed out on this .

Oh well....... Just less 'Riff Raff"   LOL!

Anyway, hope to do it again. I didn't take many, but here are a few pics

Lets see...

Rick,

Thank you for the E-Unit

Doc,
Thanks for everything

Dave,  

Thank you for starting the "breakfast mess" as you stated in one of your posts.

Norm,
Thank you for organizing this.

Patrick,

HUGE thank you to you and your wife for the wonderful hospitality today.  You have a great layout and I enjoyed being able to run a couple of my trains and watch others with theirs. 

I think I spoke with Louis the most (t was great getting to know you), but to everybody that was there, it was very nice meeting you all and I hope to do it again sometime.

Thanks,
Mike 

What a great way to spend a Saturday! Thanks to Norm, Dave, and Rick for organizing.....and a big THANK YOU to Patrick H. for his generous hospitality. Patrick's layout is outstanding. The size, scope and attention to detail are just hard to describe. Perhaps the one area of modelling that really made an impression on me, was.....water. Patrick has mastered the color, depth, and texture of his water scenes. If any of yinz get the chance.....visit this layout!

This is worthy of several articles by our favorite train publication.....OGR....for the uninformed. Allan Miller.....take my word on this ......it is awesome. 

Patrick has a beautiful home, as well. Again, thanks to the organizers, and also to Patrick H.     Tom

It was great getting to know you too Mike. I thing we did talk the most.  Sorry if I didn't get to say bye, I think you were running your engine. We will stay in contact and maybe you can come down with Patrick and some guys once I finish getting the layout wired. Email me!

Thank you Norm  for a good set up !

Alot of good people out there. I liked the comment about the OGR members.Very true!I had a great time at breakfast and running trains.

Dr Jack brought over something i never seen before and Bart Daylight brought a beautiful German Engine. Alot of different stuff today. Thanks to all who came by, made my day.All Characters and all good personalities!  Jimmy Sutter left before i could hear the smoke fluid story. Thanks Doc for the milk bottles!

ANY of you are welcome to come play trains anytime you want. Had a great time meeting ya'll!!