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PRR T&HS
Convention I have been attending the PRR
T&HS Convention since 1990. It is called the “Annual Meeting” by the long
time members. I have only missed it once since 1990. It is a nice break to
get away from work with your friends during that long January 1st to Memorial Day stretch without a
holiday. It is usually on the first weekend in May and is frequently held in
the Harrisburg Pa area. Other locations have been Philadelphia Pa, Wilmington
Delaware, Altoona Pa, and Cincinnati Ohio. We are going to Chicago in 2009. I
have been on many great tours, met great people, and been inspired by the
model room that is usually filled with awesome PRR models in ALL scales. I
would highly encourage you to join the PRR T&HS if you have even the
slightest interest in the PRR. Download the membership application here. You will
get the Keystone which is undeniably the finest quarterly magazine produced
by any railroad historical society. If all of this is not enough, you get to
hang out with ME which is always worth the price of admission! These
are random photos taken at the PRR Conventions I have attended since I got a
digital camera. I have many photos taken from earlier conventions but those
photos were taken with film cameras which all have to be scanned. That is
very time consuming. I may get to that some day. Click on the photos to make them larger 2003 Philadelphia Pa. Amtrak
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We got a very
rare tour of the Amtrak CETEC Control center and of a very new Acela Trainset
Juanita
Terminal
The
Awesome Former PRR Facility of Bennett and Eric Levin
NO one plays PRR like the Levins!
Model Room
2004
Cincinnati
Ohio
We
went to Cincinnati Ohio for 2004. It was the furthest west a PRR T&HS
convention had ever been. It was an outstanding event.
The
first stop was the wonderful Cincinnati Union Terminal. Most of the building
has been converted into a Science and Natural History Museum. http://www.cincymuseum.org The main attraction
for me is the huge professionally built model of Cincinnati that just happens
to be built in S Scale. It is absolutely awesome! The designers knew nothing
about model trains. When planning it they decided that O Scale was too big to
portray all of the needed scenes, and HO was too small to be seen at a distance
so they settled on S Scale. Much of Cincinnati is shown in model form in true S
Scale without compression or omissions. Everything was built by a professional
model building contractor. They were going to MAKE the trains too, but the
trains were going to be less prominently
featured until the availability of S Scale was discovered. Don Thompson was
involved with getting his S
Helper Service trains utilized on the layout. It is a MUST see! We were
lucky enough to get a private tour of the underside of the layout and workshop
by the layout maintenance person.
We
even had the banquet in the main lobby under the Grand Dome at the end of the
convention. It was a wonderful once in a lifetime experience!
These
photos are from the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati in Covington Kentucky.
http://cincirailmuseum.org It was
raining on the bus going there, and just stopped in time for us to walk around
for a few hours. I have detail photos of many of the pieces there if you want
them.
More
to come! Check back soon…
Updated 7-29-08
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