O Scale Nat'l

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Anyone here going to Denver?

[R.K. Maroon]

I will be at the show, along with three colleagues from the DFW O-scale club. We are bringing our portable traction layout. I will also be giving a "clinic", which will be a survey of locomotive drives over the years, complete with video of drives in action and show-and-tell pass-arounds. Looking forward to seeing any and all.

Jim

[RDSRR]

Yes, making a vacation out of it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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Hmmmm..............

[Erik C Lindgren]

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[riogrande491]

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With a week and a half to go, roughly 150 had registered and the banquet was nearly full.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......roughly150 had registered and the banquet was nearly full.

how many of the 150 are the vendors?

[riogrande491]

Martin -

I have no sauce about how many are vendors. Come to Denver and find out.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Martin -

I have no sauce about how many are vendors. Come to Denver and find out.

That's the lack of helpfulness that I was looking for and will encourage attendance......and if you'll pick up the tab for travel, hotel, and expenses, I might.

[up148]

Wow, you never cease to amaze me Martin, Bob was merely passing on a fact that he knew, it's not his job to research and answer our questions. I see elements of the "Club Car" bleeding over into our 2R modeling forum and that is sad.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wow, you never cease to amaze me Martin, Bob was merely passing on a fact that he knew, it's not his job to research and answer our questions. I see remnants of the "Club Car" bleeding over into our 2R modeling discussion and that is sad.

No, not at all. And I was not aware that asking questions was a forbidden action or something akin to kicking the sacred cow here. I'm really curious and also concerned about their attendance numbers - I'm hoping for their success as I've seen and attended conventions that failed miserably. Figuring the size of the usual selling pit, that 150 might be a significant number of the registrants - I'm hoping that's not true and is exclusive of the vendors. That would be a far better bit of information.

Sad is telling me to attend on 2 weeks notice -- for me to attend events takes 9-18 months advance planning. 2 weeks or 2 months just doesn't cut it. Sadder still is the presumption is that everyone is a retiree that can just drop and run to wherever, whenever.

Right now I'm try to figure out whether I can get to Chicago - btw, it's in April in 2022. Unclear if I can get to Indy in October; seems like everyone is having their meet or convention in October; Indy, East Penn, NMRA, York, etc., etc.....and model RR'ing is still dying.

But, I'm really wondering just how much longer National O Scale conventions will be realistic to hold; very few in the last 15 years have been actual conventions with a real array of double digit numbers of clinics, open houses, op sessions, etc. That O scale might not be able to sustain conventions while other segments and scale groups of model RR'ing would be sad.

[up148]

Wow, you never cease to amaze me Martin, Bob was merely passing on a fact that he knew, it's not his job to research and answer our questions. I see remnants of the "Club Car" bleeding over into our 2R modeling discussion and that is sad.

No, not at all. And I was not aware that asking questions was a forbidden action or something akin to kicking the sacred cow here. I'm really curious and also concerned about their attendance numbers - I'm hoping for their success as I've seen and attended conventions that failed miserably. Figuring the size of the usual selling pit, that 150 might be a significant number of the registrants - I'm hoping that's not true and is exclusive of the vendors. That would be a far better bit of information.

Sad is telling me to attend on 2 weeks notice -- for me to attend events takes 9-18 months advance planning. 2 weeks or 2 months just doesn't cut it. Sadder still is the presumption is that everyone is a retiree that can just drop and run to wherever, whenever.

Right now I'm try to figure out whether I can get to Chicago - btw, it's in April in 2022. Unclear if I can get to Indy in October; seems like everyone is having their meet or convention in October; Indy, East Penn, NMRA, York, etc., etc.....and model RR'ing is still dying.

But, I'm really wondering just how much longer National O Scale conventions will be realistic to hold; very few in the last 15 years have been actual conventions with a real array of double digit numbers of clinics, open houses, op sessions, etc. That O scale might not be able to sustain conventions while other segments and scale groups of model RR'ing would be sad.

Sorry, but if "That's the lack of helpfulness that I was looking for" is asking a question then you need to polish up your people skills.

How about, "thanks, but I'm unable to attend, if you (Bob) hear additional attendance figures please make another post". Anything with the slightest amount of gratitude for Bob taking the time to include us, since I doubt many of us will be able attend.

I agree with you, most O Scale shows have been on the endangered list for a long time.

[Carey Williams]

Hello all ...look forward to seeing all who are heading to Denver .... I'll be giving a talk about vintage O scale 1920's-1955 ...

One of the pieces I'm bringing for display is F W Gresham"s Erie J-1 Pacific ... Gresham traveled to the 1947 NMRA convention from his home in Fort Wayne , Ind ...on trains via Denver with his Pacific ..running it on various club layouts throughout the trip ..including the Denver club in the basement of Union Station ....if you would like to see the engine run ..please see video link

https://youtu.be/-1xUGIcwIqo

Hope to see you in Denver
Cheers Carey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hello all ...look forward to seeing all who are heading to Denver .... I'll be giving a talk about vintage O scale 1920's-1955 ...

One of the pieces I'm bringing for display is F W Gresham"s Erie J-1 Pacific ... Gresham traveled to the 1947 NMRA convention from his home in Fort Wayne , Ind ...on trains via Denver with his Pacific ..running it on various club layouts throughout the trip ..including the Denver club in the basement of Union Station ....if you would like to see the engine run ..please see video link

Very cool, Carey!