Click on the photos to make them larger 2004 Chicago Illinois Museum of Science & Industry Museum of Science & Industry

Lake Boat Tour

2005

Altoona PA

The Mighty Pennsy Lives!

Dan At The Horseshoe Curve Dick Karnes & Matt Lacko NS Commemorative Boxcar

East Broad Top Private Tour

Penn Central X29 Railcar America NS Juanita Shops

Scratchbuilt PRR H21 Battle Of the Network Electrics

Face to Face Like Elton & Billy Pennsy S Models Auctioneer Jamie

2006

Pontiac Michigan

A little Bomb Scare was an unscheduled convention event!

Donna & Bill Mark III American Models Tour American Models Tour

American Models Tour

Awesome Live Steam Layout over 12 Acres!

Joel DeWitt’s Rio Grande Layout Dale, Don & Joel DeWitt

Brooks Stover’s Buffalo Creek & Gauley Layout

Railfanning from and near the Hotel

Andy & Dave Heine Rockin Out! Donna before Dinner

2007

Baltimore Maryland

Day 1

We arrived at the hotel at 9:00 AM. It is literally just of I-95 as you will soon see. So at least the hotel is not a truck stop, but it IS attached to the bus depot. Who knew? The truck stop is across the street. The hotel is very nice though. You can walk right to the 24 hour food court without going outside that has KFC and other fine dining establishments.

Pop math quiz…

Bus Depot + Donna + Vacation =?

You really don’t want to know but the stab wounds have almost stopped bleeding.

The view from our room on the 10^th floor.

Yes that is I-95

Tuesday Tour

Maryland Midland Railroad & Western Maryland Museum

Note the “Mad Max” Style 44 Tonner

Western Maryland Railroad Museum

After the tour and dinner I helped Don & Robin off load. The selling hall is on the 2^nd floor.

The loading dock and freight elevator is closest to the kitchen so all of the SHS stock was carted

through the kitchen. I thought it was like a Soprano’s Style Mob hit coming in through the kitchen.

Day 2

Donna went off to the ladies tour of Havre De Grace Maryland.

Besides being hot out she had a good time. She is not one to take photos.

I went off to Washington DC Metro and Brentwood Shops tour.

Metro Shops Tower

Metro Shops

Brentwood Ave. Subway Fire & Rescue Training Center

“Rollover Rig” Bob Werre Subway Rescue Training

Day 3

My privately arranged layout tour of Sam Powell’s new Penn Creek Valley

Dan Vandermause’s B&O layout and the B&O Railroad Museum

Penn Creek Valley

Dan Vandermause’s B&O layout C 1960s

We will get him to backdate to the transition era after running my EM-1 & Baldwin Sharks!

After getting my wings on a borrowed Garmin GPS unit, we wound up at the Ellicott City B&O

Museum, not the Mount Claire Shops downtown. You must obey the GPS until it is really obvious

you are not even close to where you wanted to go! My passengers took the mishap very well…

Day 4

Some of the Contest Room models

A Bit on the Canadian Side Eh?

Live Steam Park Tour

Donna trusts me while I am driving the train!

Some Vendors Room Photos

Mike Ferraro & William Silcox Dan Navarre of RRM Doug Peck of Port Lines

Pennsy S Models Larry & Lyn Morton That Canadian Guy Again

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