Getting Started

Business class is comfortable but lonesome....  Going to be a long day.  WiFi is good and the views are good too.

Corn’s cut all the leaves are down except a few oaks that hold their leaves.

 WRJ
 

Peak through to a VT Railway Locomotive.  

Safe

Have a safe trip and what booth will you be at? I will stop by Sunday.

Tom

Looks like a fun trip

looks like the Vermonter is doing a decent business. Taking a train to the train show has to be the ultimate way to go.

Barry P. 

Bus man’s holiday!

I’ll be with the Yankee Dabbler in booth 1630.  The train ends at Philadelphia and the truck leg begins.  

I just haven’t got my fill of train rides!  The sad part is the amount of abandoned railroad infrastructure there is.  The neat part is seeing the country from a different perspective!

I’m looking forward to meeting a lot of people!  AND visiting booth number 2616!!!

Backing into Springfield, MA station.

On our way again.

Diesel electric to electric electric in New Haven.

I'm not going to be at this one...

Nick, 

I'm afraid I'll have to call on you to fill in for me there, taking all sorts of photos of all sorts of things (esp. new products) and posting them here. 

We're counting on you, buddy!

@ Jeff

Hi Jeff,

I’ll have to wait to meet you.  Time will come...  One problem though

I just broke my iPad camera taking the selfie of my hat.  Can you send your DSLR camera along with Joe??

( ;> ) ) 

Nick

Second leg.

When I started doing model trains, the hobby shop was the epitome of life experience.  Lately I’ve found the second nearest hobby shop more than is 100 miles away.  Today I had the luxury of being in a superb hobby shop dedicated to model trains in Bellmawr, NJ.  It was bright, clean, organized, wicked well stocked and darn near overwhelming!!!  Model railroad ecstasy!   
 

The rig on the left will transport us to Trainfest.  May the sun shine bright on the Yankee Dabbler for many more years!!!

The whole hall.

Made it to Milwaukee today and left the contents of the booth.  We were early and I took a couple of pictures of the exhibition hall.  Very large!

One could probably build quite a layout in here... but tomorrow the show will be set up in here!

Building

It is a big place. Lots of vendors and manufacturers but 54 layouts with almost 1/2 allowing kids to operate. Plus the building across from the main entrance also has layouts. Have a good show and I will try to say hi on Sunday.

Tom

What’s neat today...

Caught our buddy getting ready!

We’ll see more of Ken this week.

Nick

Thanks for taking us along!

Sit-in' in St. Paul wishing I was in Milwaukee.

Rick

Hope you aren’t all disappointed.

Today at Trainfest was very busy.  I did get precious few pictures. 
 

A family album who’s who on the run today.

Headed home.

I wish I had more time to take pictures at Trainfest.  I also wish I had more pictures of the train rides.  After driving/riding from Milwaukee to Philadelphia directly from packing a van at the end of the show I went to sleep.  Shortly after sweet sleep arrived a phone call arrived.  It was Amtrack saying my train trip home had been cancelled.  Humph!  I quickly changed it for a bucket list trip up the west side of Lake Champlain that I’d been thinking about for years!  It was fantastic!  The Adirondack from New York along the Hudson River is interesting but north of Whitehall, NY was the interesting part for me.

 
Lake Champlain is 11 miles wide at its widest point and 154 miles long.  I didn’t get a good shot of the wide part.

Traveling along on the cliff carved out of the hill beside the lake for miles along with the two tunnels was something I watched from the air for years.  I finally got to experience it from the ground!  The last leg was a car and a car on a ferry from Plattsburgh, NY back to Burlington, Vermont.

I hope you are not disappointed by the obvious lack of show pictures.  Jeff Schultz has definitely spoiled us with his shots of previous shows.  Thanks to all of you who stopped by the Yankee Dabbler to say hello and talk.  I enjoyed the one to one in person time!

Nick

I love that area

The old D&H route from Albany to Montreal is a beautiful setting for a train ride. Aside from the obvious attractions of that railroad I have a strong interest in the colonial and Revolutionary era of that region. Being as it was the natural highway from Canada to America’s population centers that area is steeped in history and legend. I’ve got to get up that way again somehow.

Barry P.

You guys had a great booth there!

Good spot and wonderful people at the booth. 

The show was amazing. Looking forward to it again.