Calling All Members (From The North Georgia Area) (Meet and run trains?)

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I would like to meet a few local fellow modelers within, say, 35 miles of Gainesville or Winder (Georgia), to meet and run trains, talk trains, build models, build layouts, etc.

I don’t care if you have a finished basement filling layout, or a short piece of flextrack for a test track. I don’t care if you’ve been in the hobby for 50 years, or just started.

I’m not talking about forming a formal club, just 2 or 3 modelers to get together to enjoy trains.

Anyone interested? Email if so, let’s no clutter up the forum too much.

Brad

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Brad,
For what it’s worth, I was in Gainsville, Ga recently. We were on our way to North Carolina and I
always look for hobby shops in the towns along the way. I know that there are several in the Atlanta
area, but my mission when going through Atlanta is to get out of Atlanta. Anyway, I drove around
for a few minutes with no luck, so we got back on the road.

There’s a question in here, I promise. Is there some nice shops up your way? If so and you don’t mind,
could you let me know? You would save me from wandering aimlessly around towns that I know
nothing about. Thanks. Dave

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No hobby shops in Gainesville, not any more, anyway, there’s one in Lawrenceville, one in Duluth (across from the RR Museum), and one in Watkinsville (just south of Athens). There’s also a cool display in Helen.

Brad

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Definitely interested! Sounds like a good day trip from western SC. So what scale do you run?

Bob

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HO scale, Southern Railway in 1957.

Oh… OK, some modern stuff, too.

Easley, SC, huh? Been there, nice place. Should be about an hour to hour and a half from my place. (Moving to Winder soon, next month or so). What’s your scale, RR, and era?

Brad

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Brad,

N Scale. N&W, CofG and Southern transition era primarily, PA/B/A’s, Train Masters, H16-44’s, Y’s, A’s J’s, 2-10-2’s Pacifics and others. Once in a while I like to run ore behind a Yellowstone (if I can get enough of the right ore cars together to get it back from the DRGW to the Missabe). I also like to change up with modern intermodal stuff on occasion; Roadrailers, Maxistack and Twinstacks behind SD70’s and dash8-40bw’s or GP38’s . I used to do HO, but didn’t have enough room to run the length of trains that made me happy. Still wouldn’t mind making a day trip to GA, I still love the sights available in the larger scales.

Bob