Being there’s a lot of postings going on about trains shows and our likes and dislikes with them as far as pricing and crowds go etc. I thought I would throw my two cents worth into the mix. I went up to the Allentown train show this past weekend and I would rate it as an Ok experience but not waste my time ever going back again. My reason, well the entry fee was fair $6.00 the parking was not an issue at least for me any way, no super sardine can crowds to speak of but the thing that bugged me was there seemed to be a never ending sea of orange and blue boxes with the words Lionel Trains as far as the eye could see. Now don’t get me wrong not detracting from the O and S scale crown as they have some pretty darned neat stuff but I’m an HO guy and not at all interested in what they have for sale.
So when I/you guys go to a train show Do you want to see everything or mainly just what you model. For me I much prefer to go to a scale select show if you will. I want to see what I model and not waste my time wading through table after table of toys and novelty items. Heck one year we were at a Greenburg show up here in Edison, NJ and some joker flying a model helicopter almost beaned one of the guys in our group in the head.
Well to the point of my long winded diatribe while at the Allentown show I was handed a flyer buy a person at the Funaro & Camerlengo table showing that Howard Zane is promoting a new or should I say another train show in Ellicott City Maryland on Nov. 27 & 28th Thanksgiving weekend at the Turf Valley Resort which according to Map Quest is some 35 miles south of Timonium from the gist of what I read was that this show was going to be more geared towards the toy train crown and have a little bit of everything. One of the folks at the table mentioned if I interested tables would be going for $35, who knows might be worth it to clean out all of my stuff in one shot, I think I’m going to put it to the club this week and maybe we’ll put a few tables together, lord knows we hav