O Gauge Railroading Forum Meeting at York; Fri Oct 18th at 2 PM

Sounds like the usual great lineup!  Ed, once again, thank you for organizing this and thank you to the companies for participating.  Always look forward to the meeting!

Thanks for the info Ed!  See you at York.

Side Rod

Ed and All,

It looks like I won't be able be at the show this York. And Jonathan just informed me that he can't come to York either, so we will not have a presence at the forum meeting.

The beauty of York is that the next show is just 6 months away. See you all in April.

I don't take my absence lightly. I haven't missed a york in 15 years. But I have to supervise the construction of the following projects:

GN08 Super Mikado - Inspection Finished arriving November 7th.

Santa Fe Super Chief 1951 - Dome Car Sample Below Finishing November 12th.

FP7 Diesel Project - Finishing November 12th.

Budd Train - "The Canadian"  Samples being reviewed Oct 18th. Schedule to be discussed.

Modernized HW Coaches - Sample Painting and Lettering. Schedule to be discussed.
N&W Mollies - Production Schedule Discussion. Should be done by March 2014.

PRR L-1: Production Inspection in late November. The first project from the Philippines. The factory is co-run by Boo Rim, famous for super highly detailed models.

Scott Mann - China

You will be missed, Scott, but it is more than a hop, skip, and jump from China to PA!  

I won't be there either, thanks to, among other things, another kidney stone, but I do hope to see you and all the rest--manufacturers, dealers, magazine subscribers, and TCA members and friends--in April.

Safe travels to all, and have a great time at the world's greatest toy train meet!

Didn't we have a specific topic set up on the furum for York business?  What happened to that? Everyone used to make their arrangements to meet folks and see specific things, on that forum topic.

From what I've been seeing, it seems that interest in the York, Eastern Divisional meet is waning a bit.  Others see this too?  I mean, even Scott Mann is going to miss this one, and at least 1/2 of my buddies from around here in Cleveland are not going. 

I had to miss the April meeting, the first one I've missed in about 20 years, but it seems that I'm hearing less anticipation, less planning, less excitement about this Fall's meet next week.

Am I wrong on this?

Paul Fischer

Oh, Wait!  I found it!  It's down at the bottom of the secondary list under special forums.  Still not a lot of activity there.

Paul Fischer

Paul I believe your wrong.

Scott,

I am very sorry you will not have a presence at York or at the OGR Forum this time.

Allan is right, you will be missed. Hope things are going well in China and looking forward to seeing you again in April.

Ed Boyle

Scott,

Oh, does that Super Chief Dome Car sample look nice.

Great to hear the update on the FP 7s as well.

Now, we are going to miss you at York even more :-(

Ed Boyle

Mr. Boyle, I cannot wait for the upcoming TCA Meet at York Faigrounds. And now with this Forum Meeting, it is just one more item to do at the meet.

Mr Boyle,

Scott Mann will not be at York but I will be there representing Sunset Models and Golden Gate Depot as I have for many years now as an accomplice to Scott at his location in the Orange Hall and the Grandstand before that when Mort Mann was running Sunset Models/3rd Rail.

Generally, Scott answers questions regarding 3 rail electronics and glad hands with customers. My role is to answer train related questions such as sleeper configurations, passenger train consists, types of feedwater heaters,etc. I am a 2 rail modeler and have virtually no knowledge regarding 3 rail electronics.

I am prepared to answer questions regarding future projects (one of my primary functions with Scott is considering/recommending future projects) as well as currently announced project updates. While I am not nearly as personable as Scott, I will at least be there to represent Sunset/3rd Rail/GGD so we will have a presence at our normal location in the Orange Hall.

Robert Heil

Ha... Not as personable as Scott? You don't give yourself enough credit.

Yes, Bob will answer your questions, but don't ask him about making a Ready 0-4-0, he might bite your head off.

Have a great show, all of you.

Scott Mann

Bob has always represented Sunset/3rd Rail/GGD at our twice yearly O scale swap meets. He is always well informed of the latest comapny info, a very knowledeable modeler and a heck of nice guy.

Sunset et al will be in good hands.

Looking forward to it!

Peter

I'm delighted that Bob will represent Sunset/3rd Rail at York and do business at their usual location in the Orange Hall.

That is good news.  Sure you don't want him to speak at the Forum Meeting, Scott?

Ed Boyle

Ed,

My speaking days are over. Better for me to be at the display rather than leave that vacant.

Bob,

Not to worry.

We can have someone watch over your booth while you are at the Forum speaking briefly, and then you can get right back to your post at the 3rd Rail booth in the Orange Hall.

We are happy to do this if you wish.

Ed Boyle

Is anyone planning to video the meeting for us that can't be there? Always miss the forum meeting (except those seats!)...many laughs and great information. 

I'm hoping for Mr Muffin's "Cliff Notes" version.

I did it last year, but I will not be able to video the Grandstand Meeting this time. The way my schedule blew up on me this week, I am going to be lucky to get to York in time for this!