NE Ohio Train Show - Oct 1-2, 2016

It was nice to meet those present.

Tom, you are closer than me… My drive is just over 2:30 mins.

I managed to pick up a BB SD40-2, and decoder to go with, both for under $65 total, so a good deal in my book, a couple rail cars, including a NS Lake division platform car (aka a caboose), and the obligatory railroad T-shirt. I Stayed in Berea to railfan, and caught NS 955, the OCS, rolling through! That was a surprise! Will post pics later. (Maybe video? It was shot on my cell, as my video camera is @home, in PA… Video is of unknown quality on bigger screens… I shall check it and see later on.)

Hope all make it home safely.

EDIT: Corrected typo that my “dumb-smart-phone” made, thinking it knew more than me…

NS OCS Berea

Free wifi is good for something during dinner!

As promised, OCS pic.

Love the warm-white LED headlight on the A-unit, Rick. [swg] Yea, Berea is always worth a stop. Did the station restaurant ever reopen?

Actually, I drove 3 hours last night from western PA to make the 35-min. drive this morning to the train show. Do you live up near Erie?

Tom

I do, I am about 30 minutes south of Erie.

EDIT: And yes, the restaurant has reopened. It was quite busy tonight, so me and my friend I rode with went elsewhere.

I’m in Indiana - west of I-79 on US422. Glad to hear the restaurant is back open again, Rick. It’s such a classy depot that I always like seeing it occupied and being taken care of it.

Tom

Tom,I would hate to think that show is going South like several other shows I attend has over the past few years…I should be able to make it to the Dalton show on November sixth.Then the Marion Show-I cut my list down to three this season.

Of course the Bucyrus show is in April and I will attend since its across town.

BTW. I bought the Jeep since I know its history and how well it was maintained and pampered.He also lower his price by a very large amount since he knows I will take good care of his “baby”.

The down side is that will bite into my hobby budget over the next few months and on the up beat side there will be no car payments.

Nice meeting many of the guys that have participated in the threads here on the forum yesterday. Sorry we did not see Brakie or Ed.

I did not purchase a lot, spent some money on tools from the tool guy, got a screw sticker, some glue applicators and 3 more tweezers of various shapes. Also got some ingot molds and round coil covers from State Tool and Die. These will be used for loads in my gons and replacements on the coil cars.

Rick Jesionowski