Raleigh NC Train show-This Sunday 8-12

See ya at 9:00! For post war guys this is the best place to go.

Rob

I am going to try to swing by.  I will probably have to bring my wife with me to chaperon my wallet.

I didn't know about this show. I live an hour away in Burlington and I went to a show in Winston-Salem last spring. I used to go to computer shows in the same building many years ago but I don't think they have been around for a while.

I hope to come but my oldest son is visiting and will be leaving Sunday afternoon. Is it Sunday only?

Yep, sunday 10-3

billshoff

Google NC State Fairgrounds and look under schedule of events there you will find listings for each month. the TCA shows, Neuse River Valley shows and I think it's call the American Toy Show or something like that are listed by the date they will be held. 

Southeastern TCA will have a 2 day show and christmas party in December at the fairgrounds.  Sorry but I don't  have the date here in front of me. Hope you make it Sunday.

If you're a member of this forum and attend this Sunday's TCA show in Raleigh stop by table 154 and say hello; I'd love to meet you face to face.

Steve, I'm planning on coming at 10am for an hour or so and would like to meet you and any other forum members who are there....although I'm not sure how to identify people unless I know their booth numbers. Maybe some will be close by when I visit you.

TCA can get in at 9:00

Rob

I hope to stop by at 10:00 for an hour or so. Rarely attend shows anymore because I am now at an age where I crank up slowly and motor along even slower.

Please stop by my table and say hello. It would be nice to actually meet some form members from NC.

Dave

How will we know you?

Steve,

Im tall,  6 feet 4 inches, glasses, gray goatee and gray hair. My table will have a red tablecloth on it.

Dave

Wow, cool to see someone from Burlington on here. That's just a hop, skip and a jump from Mebane.

As much as I'd like to go to Raleigh today, it's just not going to happen. I need to babysit my 9 month old grandchild this morning. This is Zoe...

Dewey and Vulcan can take a look around for me and tell me what I missed...

Instead of arriving in Raleigh @ 10 am I am leaving Greensboro at 10--tire down this A.M--slow leak down overnite after rotate and balance yesterday. But it is a nice day and I am sure I-40 will be just a driving pleasure.

I finally arrived at the Raleigh Train Show and was pleased to meet and chat with Forumites DG Jones and Steve[aka "ACL Fred"]. Initially I walked the rows examining the tables and reading name tags. I was the old guy staggering around with a cane and oxygen pack on my back[however I only used the oxygen going back to my parking spot which I believe was close to the city limits of Durham---lot of folks{and cars} there for the Fairground Flea Market and food service as well as for the Train event].

Couldn't find a red table cloth and a 6'-4"proprietor with a gray goatee[or any other Forum Members]. So I went to the Meet's front table and sought locations and ID help from the TCA guy in the Pioneer Stripe railroad cap. That is how I found DG and Steve but no luck tracking down Dave[NCDave].

Anyway I bought a Lumber Yard Office from DG to go in one corner of my layout to complement the Frick Sawmill and homemade Lumber Shed. DG had a long table with a nice, huge display of trains,structures, etc.

I found Dave at the red table cloth. I met DG Jones too.

Rob

As usual I had a great time in Raleigh today; Don, Dave and Dewey it was a pleasure meeting and talking with you.  I look forward to visiting with you at future TCA meets.  Rob we may have talked at my table and just not realized it.  Next time I'll have to put a big sign so no one will miss seeing anyone.

Dewey,

I'm sorry I missed seeing you today. We will have connect a another meet or down at Mikes sometime. 

Dave

It was nice to meet Don, Steve, and Rob at the meet today. I believe we all have talked to one another at past meets but never put a name to the face that appears on the forum. Next meet I attend I will post a sign with my forum handle so we forum members can connect easily. 

Dave

I was there, with F-VTrains from the forum, and our wives.  We had a wonderful time.  A shame there is not some easy way to identify forum members.  We would have liked to meet everyone else . . . 

I was there with my two boys, but hadn't checked the Forum before I left so I didn't recognize anyone. Lots of neat stuf I hadn't seen at other meets before (on one table was a nice 773 Hudson), and there was a neat seller with a pretty large collection of real railroadiana, including what appeared to be a never-before-used long-spout oil can.

I thought the show was a success.  The kid's area was swamped with children all day. There were layouts in all the popular scales and train races for the teenagers.

It was great to meet so many OGR forum members from our area.  I had a chance to see Lee Willis again and meet for the first time ACL Fred, ncdave, oldrob, F-V Trains, and Dewey Trogdon.  Great bunch of guys!  Thanks for stopping by to say hello.

Happy railroading,

Don

Next year I'm going to wear a big button that says "Lee Willis from the OGR Forum"

It is so good to meet folks face to face.  

Somewhere I have an OGR Badge the Magazine made available several years ago. If I can't find it I will have a fairly large one made. For me meeting the folks we talk with on the Forum is always a pleasure and learning experience and we need to make it as easy as possible. 

I was there from about 1:00 to 3:00pm.

Found out about Saturday afternoon through some friends. Guess I should have looking at this forum more often. Don't remember if I saw a red tablecloth. If it didn't have Marx on it I probably missed it.  LOL