National Train Show in Seattle this weekend

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Will I be seeing any of you at the National Train Show in Seattle, WA this weekend? I’ll be there on Friday and Saturday, but I won’t be in our booth much on Friday. Saturday I’ll try to spend as much time as possible in the Model Railroader/Kalmbach booth.

Stop by and say hello if you’re going to be there. [:)]

Bergie

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Your killing me Bergie. I Wish I could go. We had talk about it, but in the end I vetoed it for this year. Where is it supposed to be held next year anyway.

Noah

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Noah, hear is the schedule for the next several years for the NMRA convetions, copied from the NMRA’s website
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2005: Cincinnati, Ohio - http://www.nmra.org/2005/
Division 7, MCR is pleased to announce that they host the 2005 NMRA National Convention, The Cincinnati Limited, on: 7/3/05 - 7/11/05

2006: Philadelphia, PA - http://www.nmra.org/2006/
The Mid-Eastern Region hosts Independence Junction for 2006.

2007: Detroit, Michigan - http://www.nmra.org/2007/
The North Central Region presents the Great Lakes Express in 2007.

2008: Anaheim, CA

2009: Open for Bid :East Coast

2010: Milwaukee WI - (75 anniversary of the NMRA.)

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Bergie:

I’ll be at the train show … in fact I’m writing this from my hotel room in Seattle, so I’ve been at the convention since Monday.

MyMemoirs Video, the company that produces and distributes my Siskiyou Line video series will be there, and I’ll be spending some time in their booth on Friday and Saturday.

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Hey Guys,

Please don’t forget to stop by the SOUNDTRAXX booth and listen to the demonstration that they have on the new Tsunami Sound decoder that many of us have been waiting for! Take Digital pictures. Post them when you get back. Give us your opinions and critiques. Bruce from Litcfield Station will also be there as he knows the owners of Soundtraxx.

Another thought: Would be really neat if a Tsunami demonstration could be video taped (with sound of course) and posted on this forum.

Thanks for considering!

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The NMRA Scale Rails/Bulletin with full details about the train show arrived this week – about, oh, three days after almost anyone would have had to leave home to attend the convention! This is the ONE issue per year that is truly time sensitive and they screw up.
No wonder they are losing about 500 or more members a year
Dave Nelson

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I wish I could go, I might hit Cincy and I’m 99.9% sure I’m going to Philly in 2006, I’m going to try to head to Milwaukee also.

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Well now, I brought a commercial-grade digital video camera from MyMemoirs Video (the guys who are distributing my Siskiyou Line Video series) to the convention to video my DCC clinic, and I was planning to walk around the train show and video some interesting stuff with it.

So I will do just that. SoundTraxx booth. Got it.

Anyone else have any requests?

Once I get the video footage, I’ll try to post it to model-trains-video.com next week.

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Sorry, Dave. This is the issue designed to be handed out AT the NTS. That makes it either ahead of schedule or right on schedule. It has nothing to do with the convention. :slight_smile:

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JFugate,

Thanks a lot!

Please be sure to let us know when you’ve returned with the goods and where to “click” to see it.

Cheers to you in Run 8!

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I’ll be there on Saturday. If I go past the Kalmbach booth. . .

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Ooooh, I like that schedual. Just showed it to my Dad. He said we can probably do Cinci, Philly, and Definately Milwaukee, we’re only two hours away after all.

Noah

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AntonioFP45, Do you know if Bruce Petrarca will be there Saturday? I would like to meet him as he is doing a sound install for me. I am certainly looking forward to meeting Joe Fugate and a whole bunch of train folks at the show and the Free-mo get together afterward.

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AntonioFP45, Do you know if Bruce Petrarca will be there Saturday? I would like to meet him as he is doing a sound install for me. I am certainly looking forward to meeting Joe Fugate and a whole bunch of train folks at the show and the Free-mo get together afterward.

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John:

I spoke with Bruce this morning at my clinic. He gave me some recommendations of some folks I need to speak with at the show about some DCC items I covered in my clinic.

So yes, He’s here!

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Thanks for your input guys.

I visited Happy Hobo Trains today. While there I spoke to a friend who owns a brass Southern Pacific GS-4 steamer. He was interested in a DCC conversion. He got excited when I told him that the new Tsunami decoder is going to have the GS4’s steamboat whistle AND horn available. (for those of you not aware, look at a prototype picture of a GS4’s front end. You’ll see a single horn near the roof. It’s a “honker”.)

He immedietly whipped out his cell phone and callled another friend who’s at the convention. Told him to get as much info as he can about the Tsunami decoder.
Good to see that more people are becoming interested in sound!

Take care!

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Spoke with Nancy at SoundTraxx today (one of the Tsunami product supervisors) and she gave me her permission to video the Tsunami demo decoder they have on display. We’re going to try to do it before the show opens to the public in the morning so we can get as little background noise as possible on the video.

We also have a directional mike that I plan to hold right next to the loco when we shoot the video so we can get something that sounds decent.

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Yea - Could you bring back some “free samples”. Like a Kato AC4400

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If they gave out any free samples like that, you can becha I would get one!

:wink:

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Jfugate,

Thanks very much for your willingness to help out those of us that are very curious!
Looking forward to seeing “and hearing” your recordings!