Pictures From the Pittsburgh area Train Day Get together

Patrick,

Count me in. I have some G scale track for the oval.

Looking forward to a fun day. What else can I help with?

 

Scott

 

 

I would like to make plans to attend.  Will need directions/address.  

It will be a day you will not forget. I have run trains there many times Always a great time.

This is going to be great! Is it March 1st yet! Looking forward to meeting a lot of the forum members and fellow train geeks.

Patrick,

I will be able to attend.  You certainly have quite a lineup planned!  I have a Lionel 621 switcher and 2026 2-6-4 along with all the cars that came in the 1956 and 1953 train sets my daughter found at a thrift store and gave me for Christmas.  They are all checked out and run fine, so I may bring the locos.

 

You mentioned the video of the 611.  We lived in Virginia and West Virginia for about 12 years before moving back to Butler County almost 20 years ago.  I took some video of the 611 back in 1992 when they ran from Alexandria to Charlottesville.  I'll have to see if I can find it.  I was reminded of it when I saw MTH is coming out with a PS3 J 611 and 607.  I am thinking I may want to get one of them instead of the Consolidation with my tax return.

 

Thank you very much!!

I will be there.  I can bring my EBT train in G.  Jim

I'd like to move some plans around to be able to attend......do we need a RSVP?? And what about directions?? I've wanted to see your layout and this would be great!

I highly recommend if you can make it to Patrick's home on March 1, 2014 you will see a layout you will never forget. Now lets all pray for good weather.

Amen to that, Jim!

Patrick H,
I will be there!!!!! It's great to see more train stuff happening in Pittsburgh!!

See yins guys there.
Adam

Thanks Patrick,

 

I will also be attending train day at your place.  I have color slides that I took from about 1979-1989 of local railroad subjects including Union Railroad Duquesne yard,  P&LE Mckees Rocks yard,  PAT Train, etc.  I would make the slides available for copies to be made to those modeling any of these areas.

 

Thanks , Nick 

Patrick.

Ray and his wife Dana will be attending.

Thank you for your generous offer, Patrick. I will attend.....I may bring some 2 rail surprises.....for show & tell....thanks again! .....What can I bring? snacks....pop....I'll be happy to contribute...   Tom

Boy, I wish I lived closer to all of this action. Please take pictures and post for some of us that live in Missouri.

Now that I'm all settled in in my move I might try to make this. I don't have much of interest to bring except maybe the Schuylkill Haven Borough Day sets.

Why don't you invite the Pittsburgh S Gaugers?  The club has a small portable hi-rail layout which sparks interest in S Gauge.  Contact Jon Knox:  jonknox@CenturyLink.net

 

Mark

Patrick,

 

Butch Zatchey & myself will be there. Thanks for the invite.

Only a week to go. I have been working on a few special Door prizes for the event.

Hi Patrick,

 

I would like to attend +1. 

Thank you, looking forward to the party.

 

Brandon F. and Mary F.

 

Cant wait Doc ..  theres gonna be quite a few special surprises ... everything you do is unique and one of a kind. Any chance of that freedom train showing up? Make some nice pics, that thing  might be just long  enough to cross both trestles at the same time ..

 

As Sutter said lets just pray for good weather and everyone keeps safe... Alot of good people are helping out...should be a blast.....  Alot of new faces planning to come..Forum and non forum ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want me to bring the Freedom Train I can.

I vote second for the freedom train.

Wow!  Patrick, it sounds like you have an awesome event planned!  I too wish I lived closer as I would love to see your layout and meet all the guys.  As I have said many times, we loved living in Pittsburgh and miss so many things about the area.  The warmth of the people is one of it's best assets.

 

Art

Yes bring it, will be a show stopper.

 

Jack

Looks like I will be able to make it (going to be juggling family stuff all this week and into the next) with my nephew Glenn and maybe my nephew Jeff (he hasn't made up his mind, yet) and possible my neice Emily (she may have other obligations, but not sure yet - like I said, juggling...), and I will be bringing a friend from work (and occasional forum lurker) Mike and his wife Jill.

 

Andy

Patrick, are you planning on posting any directions or just an address (directions can be Googled)?

 

Thanks,  Rick

Rick (and anyone else needing directions),

 

Patrick requested on the initial post that people should email him for address/directions.

 

Andy

Patrick my son and I would love to attend.

 

Ed T.

Ben T.

possibly my father Ed T Sr.

 

 

Thank you

Patrick, here are the names per the email.

 

Bill

Billy

Shawn

Mike

We plan on being there. Michael F and Linda F

Thank you

Patrick,

Heard about your party from Dave N. while we were railfanning with my son, Sean, at Sandpatch.  Thank you for the invite !  Sean and I will be there.  Sean has made many youtube railfanning videos.  Has four or five of 765.  Maybe we can rig something so we can show them at your party ?  Looking forward to Saturday ! 

Since I will showing all how to create the system modules for upgrading, if you have 2 black modules or 2 of the gunrunnerjohn modified modules, I can walk you through the procedure to create 1.52 system modules for you.  If you just want to bring your base and Cab we can use my modules.

 

Before you leave we'll verify that the modules or Cab and base are working.

Patrick,

 

I should be able to attend.  I have been looking forward to it.  Please let me know if there is anything that you need for the day.  I can bring some of the recent MTH P&LE passenger cars if there is an interest to see a few of these on the layout.

 

Thanks,

 

David 

 

Patrick,

 

Thanks for this.  We've never met but I live very close and am intending to come with my (adult) son.  I'm thinking of bringing my Broadway Limited (Lionel scale Atlantic and Williams 70 ft Heavyweights) and/or scale S2.  I am dying to see them on a big layout.  My layout is barely 12 ft square!

 

I might also bring some G/1/whatever Aristocrat was-gauge -- here's a good "I'm an idiot" story:  I got sick of cleaning the brass rail so I Ebay'd it in order to get SS. But I never found the SS at a price I liked so for years now I have had no track.  So itwould be nice to see that stuff in motion again.

Pat,

I'll be over early to help with any setups that need done.

 

Norm

I'm looking forward to it!

Thank you Patrick, thank you Norm!

 

Patrick,

Will you have signs directing people to the basement?  I may or may not have got lost when I walked in last time....  Of course I will remember, but others may not.  Sorry if you already thought of that!

 

Mike

 

And thank you.

To cold out there for us to make signs.. Its ok if you wander around a while...

 

 

UPDATE: Well it looks like we are gonna have quite a few coming tomorrow and the bad weather not coming unto Sunday.

 

2 quick points.

 

Please use  the main front entrance drive through for drop off and keep open...

 

Please take your time getting here, you wont miss anything and most that volunteered to give "educational talks" wont be here until 5-5:30.The layouts will be open at 3:30

 

Thanks Norm!

This is like the Night before Christmas when I was a kid. Maybe I still am , wife always tells me to grow up. Never will.  This is going to be Fantastic. 

Like Patrick said travel safely. Food, Fun Trains and lots of friends old and new.