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It’s just an expression saying. We had such a good time the first day of a show, our eyes and feet hurt, but we want to go back again the next day and do it all over again. Just in case I missed something the day before. In the case of the Timonium show, if you paided to get in Saturday, you can get in free Sunday.
ah. True, but since I live over 2 hours drive away, it wouldn’t really be free for me -it would either require a hotel or another 4 hours of driving and associated fuel, which is going up steeply in price lately. (but glad I am getting 56 mpg in the current weather with the Prius). But still, not “free” for me to go back, just cheaper.
If it were a half hour, I might go back. I think I’ve done that once or twice for the Chantilly Greenberg show.
Well how did it go? Hope you had a good time and found it interesting.
Here you go. This spring the GSMTS show that is usually held at Timonium MD was held at the Marriott Hotel a few exits down 83 from the usual fairgrounds building. This show scheduled two 3 1/2 hour sessions each day on Sat and Sun to limit the number of show goers to make it “safer”. My wife and I went to the Saturday morning 9-12:30 session and it looked pretty well attended - fairly crowded. There was a long line queued up prior to the 9am opening. The line went quickly because everyone pre-bought tickets and all they had to do was scan phones or paper copies.
Inside there were quite a few vendors but all in all, to me anyway, not terribly exciting and 3 1/2 hours plenty of time to check over all the tables and pick though boxes if needed to read lots of labels.
There were no layouts, only vendors, which is how the show was advertised. Everything was spread out into 3 rooms (1 on the main level and 2 a level below) and some wide hallways. Probably 2/3rds of the vendors were selling older models and some long tables with Lionel etc. There were few tables with newer items such as ExactRail, Tangent, Moloco, Intermountain and Rapido etc. There was also a fair amount of N scale but not much in the way of Trainworx, mostly Atlas and Microtrains. I’ve seen a much better selection of N at the last World Greatest Hobby show a year ago in Chantilly VA.
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I’ve just seen commercials on local television for the Titletown Trainshow in Green Bay this coming weekend, April 17,18.
Different venue due to changes in the Arena and Shopko Hall to downtown at the KI center. They are not listing vendors or exibitors for the current year on the website so it may be interesting to see what is going to be there but I’m sure it will be packed because of the pent up energy to get back to normal.
Not sure if we will go or not but we have had our covid shots. Will report on what we saw if we go.
Scott Sonntag
I may have forgotten to qualify that the April 10/11 GSMTS (usually referred to as Timonium), and probably many shows, are still impacted by the pandemic and therefore are not what we are used to.
I drove the distance to this show partly because it has been over a year since my last show visit. This GSMTS was not typical and a much smaller than usual. Typically I would not drive that far for a show of this lower magnitude but I made an exception.
I would only go back again when it returns to it’s former large scale format; otherwise it would not be worth it as far away as it is. There are smaller shows I can go to that are much closer such as the Greenberg show. According to their website, they will be returning to in-person shows this July but no locations are shown scheduled yet so no idea when my “local” Greenberg show will be.
Edit:
I just checked the GSMTS/Timonium website and they are showing shows now scheduled for:
May 8 & 9, 2021
sitHad I known that, would have not gone to the April 10/11 show, and waited for the May dates which appear to be scheduled for the Timonium Cow Palace. Grrr.
I managed to schedule the Lincoln Square Train Show in Urbana, Illinois for March 26-27, 2022 after checking in with mall management yesterday. While this is a preliminary date and nearly a year away, we’re hopeful that things will have improved enough by then to conduct the show pretty much as before. Barring a big setback in vaccinations, there will be a show in 2022.
Wow, twenty seven days until a much better show, maybe, maybe not.
I’d ‘‘Grrr’’ also if I went to that last show, then went home only to find a better one may be coming up real soon.
I’d like to hear of someone that found some really neat old or new items at the ‘‘Hotel Show’’.
reogrande5761, did you observe attendees spending money, carrying shopping bags around?
Yeah, that was real annoying to see they are back to the Fair Grounds about a month later assuming that info on their website is correct. I’d much rather waited and gone in May and my wife may not be so happy to go again only a month later. I may just forget May and wait until Oct at this point. As the British would say, I felt like this was a Micky take.
I didn’t really pay attention to other attendees and what they were buying but I assume there were buyers.
There was a lot of older trains, buildings and other products at the show so likely there were some “finds” for people who were searching through them. There were a few tables with newer items, but as you may be aware, the past year has seen a huge amount of online buying so I wonder how many had, like me, already purchased many of the newer models online that were also at the show?
I’d be interested too if anyone one else on this forum went and what their experience was.
Our club had a meeting this last Sunday. It was decided that we would hold our first operating session since the china crud started, next month. It was also decided that we would hold our flea market next March as we have for almost 40 years.
This is the Darke Co. Model RR Club in Greenville, Ohio
Joe
When I click on the “DATES” for the Timonium show, I get this message that all shows are cancelled.
What am I missing?
-Kevin
Obviously it has changed since I checked it last.
Dang it!
If there really is a big show in May, I would like to attempt a trip.
-Kevin
It’s gone now. Must be they were making plans and MD stepped in and put the kibosh on it. The dates I posted in an earlier message was from that same page only a day or two ago.
There’s still good reason to pay attention to disclaimers about cancellations, etc. Shows are governed by the local health regs and rules in effect at their location, not on people’s perceptions that things are again “safe.” These can change on short notice, so I’d anticipate the need to be flexible about whether an advertized show will happen for some time to come.
I attended the Titletown Train Show today. It appeared to be well run, everyone was masked, and people were buying. It had the usual vendors and layouts with a couple of newer sellers. Walked the entire show twice in about 3 hours and picked up a few items as well. It was just good to get out and see old friends. Lots of bargains in HO used railroad cars. I’m in On30 and the only vendor selling On30 was priced a bit high for my taste. All things considered it was a good show.
Mark B.