Ahats in Altoona

[prr7161]

I'm in the back row, directly under the "s" in "Pepsi".  I was able to be there for all of Saturday, and it was good to meet some folks and do some running!

Angela

[Ed Kapuscinski]

... and Steve (SAH) is looking over my left shoulder.

You finally found him!!!

[VonRyan]

Per tradition I made my yearly appearance, but the only trains I ran this year were GWR.

But next year I won't be able to attend. I'll be in Baltimare for the last BronyCon. I had a reenacting event conflict with it this year, so I unfortunately couldn't meet famed Broadway actress Lena Hall.


-Cody F.

[tom mann]

Who took the photo anyway? Cody’s grandma?

[chicken45]

Per tradition I made my yearly appearance, but the only trains I ran this year were GWR.

But next year I won't be able to attend. I'll be in Baltimare for the last BronyCon. I had a reenacting event conflict with it this year, so I unfortunately couldn't meet famed Broadway actress Lena Hall.


-Cody F.

I don't know if you're serious or not.

[SecretWeapon]

It was to hot for me to make it out there.

[ridinshotgun]

I don't know if you're serious or not.

Oh he is serous as a heart attack.  Have you not ever seen the key chain he carries!

[tlaswell]

Wow, great turnout.  Can we get names?

Yep, that seems typical.

Edit: I didn’t realize that N Scale Weekend was sponsored by Pepsi.

There I am in the back.  Beard and greenish hat.

Pepsi?  No wonder I never found any Coke products. 

[VonRyan]

Who took the photo anyway? Cody’s grandma?

My grandmother can't even remember how to work the kitchen sink, let alone a camera.

I don't know if you're serious or not.

Totally serious.

[Rich_S]

You finally found him!!!

Thanks Ed, as you have mentioned, I had him paged just after you guys left for lunch. We got caught up on the P&WV and AC&Y. Steve also discovered CMR is selling Fairbanks Morse H20-44 shells in N scale.
Guess what our next projects are going to be

[narrowminded]

First time photo with Railwire.  Front row, taking a knee, second from right.

[SAH]

It was my first Altoona show and I can see why everyone speaks highly of the event.  The informal atmosphere was great.  Everyone just having an good time.  A big thank you to Mike and his crew.

We also revisited The Curve (35 or so years years ago was the first time - The K4 was still there) and went to the Railroaders Memorial Museum.  Both well done.  I'm not a big PRR fan but was inspired to do two things I never figured I'd do:  Bought a PRR tee shirt (they did interchange with the AC&Y after all) and a Conrail Quarterly, primarily because I saw the Mike Bednar interview.  Later I discovered a certain Ed K. was one of the interviewers.  Well done.

Steve

[DeltaBravo]

There WAS an entire Pepsi train on one of the layouts. Owner even took "Amtrak" off his DASH 8-32BHW. He had tank cars, TOFC where the trailer AND flat car were labeled "Pepsi" and TWO Pepsi cabeese, with different numbers! Did I mention it was a Pepsi train?

That was Paul Diley with Bantrak. He has a Pepsi train and also is known to run a Pillsbury train.

[narrowminded]

Myself and my lady friend had a nice four day, mostly train jaunt.   Visited the Gallitzin Tunnel and Horseshoe Curve on Friday, the show Saturday and Sunday, the Mallo Cup (Boyer Candy) factory on Saturday, and finally the National Park System's Steamtown USA in Scranton on Monday. 

Met Rasputin and purchased a few of his very nicely done resin cast vehicles, a 50's Greyhound bus and three '49 Hudson Commodores.   In high school through college and a few years after, two of my brothers and I had a couple of Hudsons, a '50 Commodore (the '49 is close enough if not the same), and a '37 Terraplane.   Still need to find three Terraplanes to paint up, one for each of us.  

[MK]

Finally got some time to review this thread.  I'm going to repost the picture and see if we can all get our names in.  I've done what I can from previous posts on this thread and who I know myself but I will need help with the rest.  Once complete or near complete I will post it on the Railwire Friends thread.



Standing (L to R)
1.  Fay Chin - one of the many champions of T-Trak, not an  so he photo bombed us!
2.  Dave Ferrari
3.  ChristianJDavis1
4.
5.
6.
7.  prr7161
8.  Rasputen
9.
10.  Doug Nelson
11.  tlaswell
12.  Mike Madonna
13.  Randgust
14.  Rich_S
15.  SAH
16.
17.  MK

Kneeing (L to R)
1.
2.  EL3632
3.  VonRyan
4.
5.  narrowminded
6.


edit by tom mann: added doug nelson