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Pete Steinmetz

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So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« on: August 05, 2012, 11:18:58 PM »
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Not many people from San Diego made the trip to Grand Rapids.  Quite a few said they were going to Atlanta.

Those of you that went to Grand Rapids, what did you think overall?

How was the National train Show?

I heard attendance was down.

I heard there was not much N Scale from layout tours to layouts at the National Train Show.

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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 11:23:16 PM »
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I donno - two of my top freight car want-list items were announced!

That's not so bad... 

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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 09:45:09 AM »
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I heard attendance was good...
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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2012, 10:09:09 AM »
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Attendance is always relative.  Compared to the last national convention that Michigan hosted (Detroit-area) this show was very well attended. 

There was an N-scale Fremo style layout at the show, but that might have been it for N.  But there were a ton of N scale announcements this year, so the layout count shouldn't be any indication of the health of the scale: http://www.model160.com/n-scale-news-blog/nmra-2012-show-report/
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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2012, 01:30:58 PM »
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Don't have a clue as to how many attended the show,but it was

(1) very busy.

(2) very crowded,

(3) very tiring

(4) A Hell of alot of fun.

 (5) Something I will never do again as an exhibutor.

At $12.00 a head admission fee probaly not as a spectator either.
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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2012, 01:44:02 PM »
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TrainCat's Flexi-Van car is a very welcome suprise :D :D
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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 02:05:38 PM »
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Quote from: Roger Holmes on August 06, 2012, 01:44:02 PM
TrainCat's Flexi-Van car is a very welcome suprise :D :D

Fantastic!!!! I recently snagged Microscale's last two set of Flexi-Van decals. Thought I was going to have to make my own.

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Re: So How Was the Convention in Grand Rapids?
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2012, 06:05:13 PM »
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Being into Z as well as N it was nice to be told that TC had the autorack ramp in the Q for Z.Now if we could only get some decent autoracks.
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