Greg,
We sure don't recover as fast as we used to! Stay home and don't push it. You will be happier in the long run. Plus, there is always next year...
Chris
LVHR
Unfortunately I have to back out this time. I totaled my car yesterday (I'm fine), and between being down a car and being a little hesitant to drive right now, I just can't make the trip. Have fun guys, and I'll see you all at other events in the future!
Bummer, they're dropping out like flies! Hope you're all right Mike, cars can be replaced.
Greg, just make sure they don't take any essential parts in that procedure! 
Beginning to look like just a cold rain up here and no snow so, I'm more confident I'll make my first Trainstock!
Ben, I recall that the GPS directions weren't the best way to go, do you have your "preferred" directions, I can't find the copy I saved. 
Looks like fun, never been, I may bring a couple of prewar O gauge loco's that I restored.
Ron, I'm not sure they have a conventional loop, most of it is command, both DCS and TMCC/Legacy.
Thank you Gunrunnerjohn, I will try to be there anyway, I only have conventional, "Old School" 
You can ask, I'm just a guest there, but all I've seen running is command stuff.
John think you can run Lioncheif Plus?
LC+ shouldn't be an issue, all that needs is track power. I was thinking of bringing my Camelback, just to see how well it ran on a big layout.
gunrunnerjohn posted:Ben, I recall that the GPS directions weren't the best way to go, do you have your "preferred" directions, I can't find the copy I saved.
http://www.njhirailers.com/test-page
John I got this from the website, link above.
Directions
From Points South 1- Take the Garden State Pkwy to exit 156. Merge onto route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto River street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building .
2- Take the NJ Tpke to exit 16W route 3 West. Take route 3 about 2 miles and take Route 21 north. Route 21 north becomes route 20.Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
From Points North Take the Garden State Pkwy south and exit at Route 80 west. Exit route 80 at exit 60 onto route 20 North. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
From Point West Take route 80 east to exit 60 route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are i n the big white building.
From Points East Take the George Washington bridge. Merge onto route 80 west. Exit at exit 60 which is route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
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Add 4 more, I'll be there along with 3 others.
Please add two more to the list. I will be there and bringing one guest.
Tom Shott>
I'll bring my Mikado and pennsy passenger cars. There 15" but I like them on my ceiling layout. My directions say for me to go I-78 ,287 to 80 from reading area.
We have run Lionchief Plus
Ben, how did you find the range of the LC remote if you ran it on a long run to the other end of the layout?
John,
1. You can run conventional on almost every line. We do it all the time.
2. LionChief Camelback. We lost signal on a few spots. The line of site is about 30 feet. We ran the LionChief Switcher with the LionChief plus remote tonight from the dispatch tower completely around the layout on the red and white line. Absolutely no problems.
4. The Camelback makes it around the layout if you follow it. The video review Ben and I did, we only used half the layout so we didn't know the distance from the remote to the engine until after we posted the video.
Hopes that helps.
Kevin
Cool, you should tell Ron that, I was guessing and I was wrong.
Got the info Gunrunnerjohn and thaks Kevin, May bring prewar O gauge.
For the LionChief Plus - this will also be an excellent test when running Legacy, DCS and conventional. When we shot the video review we needed to limit the background noise so we only had that unit up and running. Tonight we had a single Big Boy running while we ran the switcher around the layout - red and white lines. Then we moved it to the coal tipple and warf - used it extensively - no issues.
Check our Facebook page for the review or click the link Ben posted.
I am interested in seeing how LionChief Plus works with all the other traffic.
BTW - the Camelback was / is a LionChief Plus unit. I miss typed the unit. Bottom line - bring anything you want.
See Merrill when you arrive as he's the keeper of the running schedule.
Kevin
I'll be there, as long as theres no snow, around.
Richie
Ben
'nice review of the Camelback, see you Saturday :-)
I am looking forward to this. Bringing family along.
Lionelbill posted:gunrunnerjohn posted:Ben, I recall that the GPS directions weren't the best way to go, do you have your "preferred" directions, I can't find the copy I saved.
http://www.njhirailers.com/test-page
John I got this from the website, link above.
Directions
From Points South
1- Take the Garden State Pkwy to exit 156. Merge onto route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto River street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building .
2- Take the NJ Tpke to exit 16W route 3 West. Take route 3 about 2 miles and take Route 21 north. Route 21 north becomes route 20.Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make
the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
From Points North
Take the Garden State Pkwy south and exit at Route 80 west. Exit route 80 at exit 60 onto route 20 North. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
From Point West
Take route 80 east to exit 60 route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are i
n the big white building.
From Points East
Take the George Washington bridge. Merge onto route 80 west. Exit at exit 60 which is route 20 north. Stay on rte 20 and left exit at 5th avenue. Make a left on fifth. Go over the railroad tracks and make the first left onto river street. Make a right on 6th avenue and we are in the big white building.
Parking, If I recall there's a vacant lot near by?
There's a lot right next to the building, I don't know how the fire from last year affected parking, it was the next building going up in flames.
gunrunnerjohn posted:There's a lot right next to the building, I don't know how the fire from last year affected parking, it was the next building going up in flames.
You're thinking of the Go-Go Bar that went up in Flames. The lot my family own's down the street wasn't effected and there is more then enough capacity for parking between the lot and street parking.
Mat
That's across 11th street off of 6th ave, right? Or is it the lot on 11th street behind the building?
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mattrains posted:gunrunnerjohn posted:There's a lot right next to the building, I don't know how the fire from last year affected parking, it was the next building going up in flames.
You're thinking of the Go-Go Bar that went up in Flames. The lot my family own's down the street wasn't effected and there is more then enough capacity for parking between the lot and street parking.
Mat
Here are a couple of videos taken from the train room window of the fire next door.
gunrunnerjohn posted:That's across 11th street off of 6th ave, right? Or is it the lot on 11th street behind the building?
The fire was in the lot to the right that says "ATM Express" No parking there. Parking is on the lot to the left and on the street.
I plan to attend with 3 guests
glad i read this one last time and saw that conventional engines. Bringing my USMC alco and the cars to go with it. Also I will be asking if there are any Marines there to sign my box car, my unit did one for me as a going away gift so i figured id keep doing it. Ill have my unit shirt on so ill be easy to point out.
See you there Nate, I'm about to head out the door myself. Should be fun.
So here I am at work watching via webcam. Two things, the webcams that do not have pan and tilt features do not load on my desktop. It sure looks like much lower attendance this year. What is the opinion of those 'on the ground"?
Thank you to our Highrailer family for a great day with a great RR and great people, you are great ambassadors for the hobby!!! And attendance was a little down due to weather surrounding the area. One again THANK YOU!!!!!!!
necrails posted:It sure looks like much lower attendance this year. What is the opinion of those 'on the ground"?
I felt much the same. The guys did a great job of using the color coded tickets to better manage the food lines. That worked well! I did feel that the attendance was off a bit, both on the participants and the casual vendors. Still was a good time though!
Thanks!
To all of our friends - Thanks for joining us at TrainStock 8. Food was excellent, weather cooperated, great to see you all have fun, run trains and enjoy the day. To all that purchase the TrainStock 8 baseball cap, thank you for your support.
For those that asked me about the calendars - we only printed 200 this year, up 100 from last year. They sold out completely. Many forum members did get one. Next year we will increase production.I spoke to a few of you all that drove in - on forum member from 4 hours away. Wow.
Thanks again for making today a huge hit. See you next year.
Kevin
There were plenty of people, maybe not quite as many as last year, but certainly close.
Thank you NJ HiRailers. This is my Fifth I have attended. Every year I have a nice time meeting some people that I talk with here on the forum and the layout is an inspiration.
Each time I've gone I have gone using a different mode of transit from my Manhattan home. This year I took the Spanish bus from the GWB bus terminal. It was definitely the cheapest way so far but quite confusing to understand for the novice non-Spanish speaker.
I was there but unless you saw the cameras pan you missed me. I linked to the web cams this morning and it looked great. I just wish I could of been there.
My co worker wonted to come as well but he got stuck here at work with me. Hopefully we will be able to make the next public event. 
