Great Train Expo
Ohio Expo Center
717 East 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211
Saturday & Sunday - January 20-21, 2007
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Chief promised me he would be here for the show.
I’d love to go to it, but working dayshift Saturday and Sunday, that’s the only weekend in January that I don’t need to go to Coulmbus for class, bummer.
Jim
Chief will show up with his " Robert E. Lee ", autographed lunch pail, fill with GRITS.
Buckeye Are you going? Is it still a decent show on Sunday? I know that some two day shows the last day there aren’t as many sellers.
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I’ll be going, but when is still up in the air. [:)]
I’m going to try to go Sunday…as of right now I don’t have to work.
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I’ll try to be there on Saturday.
Wes
Wish I could go !! I will have to try for next year !! Boy, I’m going to miss The Chief again. [:(]
Thanks, John
Do not know yet if I will be going as I am busy preping my basement for a layout got one wall painted today.
Those of you who are coming to Columbus should check out a Kroger Market place store as they have 30% off on artwork(prints in a frame.) The one near me had some prints of what looks like Railroad ads for Millwalkie Road and yes they have one featuring the Hiawatha a 4’x3’ poster print and four smaller prints. The big one is 30% off 69.99 and the smaller ones are marked down to $18.00.
Will this train show have any club layouts up and running, or will it be mainly sales tables?
Wes
http://gte.ciadvt.com/showinfo/200701COL.html
I found this after I posted. Looks like a nice show!
W
Unfortunately, there are no O Scale layouts. The Lego layout is something to see.
It looks like N is pretty popular nowadays.
Wes, if you haven’t seen the Lego Layout, it is impressive. See ya on Saturday.
I haven’t seen it, but am looking forward to it. I finally purchased my MTH OSU water tower today, as well as a steel bridge and some 42" curves. I had a gift cirtificate at M S Trains. Those are some of the nicest people I have ever met. They will be at the show as a vender. They were packing up stuff for the show when I was in there.
Wes
Wes, since I travel all over, I will tell you there are some great train shops out there. A short three hour trip west and you can see Caboose Hobbies on South Broadway in Denver, CO. [:)]
If you haven’t visted Glenn’s in Akron…, well from the looks of things, he has one of everything ever made by MTH.
T&K and G&M out near Wheeling are great stores, too. Last year I was looking for a 180 Watt Brick, and after calling six major stores I found it at T&K. G&M usually has a great supply ow RMT and Williams in the store.
MS, I must admit will bend over backwards to get you what you need. They were out of O-42 Switches and he found me one.
I bet you have met some really great people at those shops and in this hobby.
When I got my Buckeye train, I was having some real problems getting the sounds to be triggered from the controller so I could hear the fight song, and hear the play by play annoucing of the 2002 National Championship Game. I finally came to realize that the controller was defective. It wouldn’t bring voltage to 0 when the throttle was all the way down, and the horn button wasn’t working correctly. I took it in to Mel, we proved the case, and he opened up a brand new set to give me a like controller. He sent it back and got a new one. Not once did he do anything that wasn’t 100% in my favor. He could have sent my controller back and made me wait a couple of weeks, which I’m very glad he didn’t. There just aren’t that many people that would do that for someone who isn’t a “regular” of the shop (yet).
Robbies Hobbies is also good. They generally have track when no one else does, and if he says that he will have something in stock by a certain day, it will be there. That says a lot about a company.
I heard on the radio that there is actually a fall in internet sales this year, and people are gravitating towards brick-and-morter stores again. I hope that keeps shops like M S Trains and Robbies Hobbies around for a long time. It sounds like there are stores like this all over the country, which is great for all of us!
Wes
Robbies actually is a brick and mortar store? I didn’t know that.
Well the building is brick anyhow…
That store is a hodge podge of hobbies, pictures frame making, and sign making. He still has at least 4 layouts set up (from N to 0 scale), which is more than most stores I know of.
Wes
Wes, there are six trains set up for you to run this Saturday at my house. [8D]