Well only two weeks away, for the Amherst Railway Society Train Show in W. Springfield Ma.
How far do you have to travel. or how far are yo willing to travel to go? I wish it was at least 2 times a yer.
Sam
We drive 5 hours from mid state southern/PA border of NY.
And spend teh night in COnnecticut before driving back.
For me it is about 400 miles and 6 hours drive one way. Traveling through Vermont in winter can be hazardous when snowing. I leave on Friday morning and return only the following Monday. I was to that show every year for the past 8 or 9 years.
410 miles for me, be about a 6 hour drive.
Pray for clear skies the whole weekend!
Chris
Sam.
Its about 170 miles for me to travel there. Last year was the first time I made it there. I will not attend again until economic circumstances improve for me and my family.
I belong to a module group that did at least 9 showings a year around the eastern part of Mass and RI. The furthest this year was the Marlboro show. It costs me $120 in fuel to travel the 2 days. The guys in the group are considering if traveling to the shows is worth the costs. We make no money at the shows and some shows give us nothing in return. We feel that at least a free lunch or coffee and donuts would at least offset and bridge a consideration gap for the guys that do it for nothing. It really adds insult to injury paying $2 for an 8 oz cup of coffee after dumping $75 in the gas tank to benefit their show.
Pete
It’s only an hour and a half for me. The trouble is, it’s in the middle of ski season, so I’m usually sliding down a mountain that weekend. We’ll see.
This year I only have ~1,100 Miles to travel. That is down from the last four years which was ~2,900 Miles.
Chris
Warner Robins, GA
(Formally in Lancaster, CA)
Wow! Some of you guys are hard core.
I only have to drive about 60 miles – 75 minutes or so. If I get skunked in the parking lot, getting in and out and walking to / from the exhibition buildings can take longer than driving there. [:D]
I live close enough to take advantage of the early bird clinic on Friday afternoon.
It’s about two hr drive from where I live in NY. I don’t usually buy anything there. I just go to look around and also look at the operating layouts. I haven’t found much difference between the prices there or what I would pay over the internet. With the cost of fuel, the price of parking and admission and lunch (not at the show), I don’t think it is worth it anymore. I last went two years ago. I had to set off my vehicles alarm to find it when I went to leave.
The following week my club is going to be at Greenbergs show in Middletown NY. It’s an hr’s drive each way. 6 hr’s drive for the three days, so I’ve got to save somewhere.
If I were to attend this show, it´d be round about 4,500 miles [swg]
Well lets see now. 75 miles drive to Heathrow
Approx 3260 miles Heathrow to Boston
80 miles ± Boston to West Springfield
Thats about 6500 miles round trip but my colleague and I will be there again,God willing.
See you all in 2 weeks . Lets hope the weather is kind.
Colin Huckle
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Ulrich,
And driving would be treacherous - no matter WHAT season you’d go in. [(-D]
Tom
Three thousand plus miles, including several hundred miles of inhospitable desert and about an equal distance of (in this season) avelanche-prone mountains.
I refuse to put up with the indignities of air travel.
Amtrak? WHAT Amtrak?
Guess I’ll pass.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
It’s about 250 miles from Boothaby Railway Village. We leave around 9AM Friday, arrive late afternoon, check into the hotel, go to the Big E and set up the booth, back to the hotel for a late dinner. Two days of show, then break down the booth, pack and get home around 11PM. Drop by our booth and say HI, section 15 of the Better Living Center
Chuck, there is an Amtrak station just across the river in Springfield! One of our summer voluenteers from Maryland takes Amtrak to the show - he is lucky, an Amtrak retiree with a lifetime pass.
I’m fortunate compared to some of you. I’m about an hour and a half away from the Big E. I’ll be going both on Saturday and Sunday but I will be sleeping in my own bed. Not worth the trouble or expense of trying to get a hotel room. Besides it will leave an extra room available for someone who lives too far away.
Do any of you from the MR forum ever arrange to meet at the show to put a face with the name so to speak?
Pat
That’s at THAT end. At THIS end, the nearest Amtrak stations aren’t even in the same STATE I live in. And the (proposed, not operating) rail passenger schemes for Sin City run in exactly the wrong direction and haven’t even mentioned connecting with Amtrak.
Out here we really do have the wide open spaces - AKA miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in Clark County, NV)
If i stop at dunkindonuts for a cofee,it could take me up to 12 minutes to walk there.
Get a big coffee, it’s gonna be a cold walk across the bridge.
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About 225 miles from Syracuse down 90 not a bad drive went for the first time last year. will be attending again this year
Mr B. You can slide downhill on boards any weekend. This is a once a year happening!
It’s about a 3 hr drive each way. There is a bus from north of here, haven’t called to see if there is any room left yet.
Have fun,
Richard