N-Scale Weekend Altoona PA & New Email AUG. 20 & 21

[conrailthomas519]

Great Job Mike Phillips and everybody else involved for making this years nscaleweekend a Great show! Loved the new building location.

[randgust]

Sure worked for me, had a great time.   Nice to have the AC working, lots of parking, and the Shriners upstairs with a concession stand.

Also a special thanks to Dave Ferrari for organizing the 'ad hoc' T-track module layout, it was nice to have a module working in that setup.

This was only the second time I've had the original HVRR and the new logging module "Ross Run" set up together in a show and operating together, and that was fun for me.

[chicken45]

@Ed Kapuscinski has the a$$hat picture. I'm sure he'll get around to posting it.
I had a blast. Better location....everything was better in every way. Big props to Mike!

[narrowminded]

Attended and had a very nice time.   Won a door prize, too.  A first for me!    A four pack of MicroTrains Pennsylvania gondolas.  Also purchased a Randgust 3 pack kit of his V&T ore cars.  I'll go again.

[ChristianJDavis1]

Attended and had a very nice time.   Won a door prize, too.  A first for me!    A four pack of MicroTrains Pennsylvania gondolas.  Also purchased a Randgust 3 pack kit of his V&T ore cars.  I'll go again.

Oh, so you were the guy who got them! I was eyeing them up from the table around the corner behind the door prize table. Oh well; it was the luck of the draw.

Had a wonderful time at the event. It was also great to see a lot of you guys in person.

@chicken45 when are you going to post the Pennsy alphabet? I know how awesome it was being there in person, and I am sure those who could not attend would like to see it.

@Ed Kapuscinski cannot wait to see the group photo. Last one I am in (the one circulating as a banner image) I look miserable, and I need to see if I continued the tradition of taking horrible pictures.

[SecretWeapon]

Attended and had a very nice time.   Won a door prize, too.  A first for me!    A four pack of MicroTrains Pennsylvania gondolas.  Also purchased a Randgust 3 pack kit of his V&T ore cars.  I'll go again.

I'm glad you won them. I donated that runner pack. I hope you run the hell out of them.

[narrowminded]

I'm glad you won them. I donated that runner pack. I hope you run the hell out of them.

Thanks.  There were quite a few door prizes so there were a lot of "winners".  It makes it nice for all who attend.  That set will flush out some of my Pennsylvania needs/ wants as I have relatively few gondolas in my selection.  They WILL be run.   Thanks again to all who made it such a nice experience. 

[w neal]

Here is my contribution:

Mike Phillips worked hard on this year's events, as here does every year. I look forward to next year's event!








It was nice to see so many layouts! Rangdust's was very nice indeed.





Here are a few scenes from an N track layout:



Always nice to see a local road featured:














And not just a local road (Altoona is the heart of the Pensy, to me), but unique power:















Love the "rebel" consist displayed here:















This module caught my eye as it was modeling a real place:


















And it was very nice to see these Fs cruising the same layout. PURDY!:















There was this bridge on the way to the shrine with a really cool factory next to it...



















And it was nice to see my Atlas engine in Butler too:

[ridinshotgun]

It was a great weekend.  I only wish we had more traffic upstairs for the layout up there.  I think I only heard it announced once or twice the whole weekend that something was going on upstairs.  Even some of the guys downstairs didn't know there were layouts running upstairs.

Oh and here are some of the upstairs layouts!

[nscaleweekend]

2017 N-Scale Weekend August 18, 19 & 20, 2017 Altoona Jaffa Center!!!!!
Woo Hoo!!!
Mike & Brian

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Awesome. Just put it in my calendar.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Sorry this took a few days to get to, but... the group photo(shop).

[Mike Madonna]

Sorry this took a few days to get to, but... the group photo(shop).

WOW.. look at that "noggin"   

[eric220]

@chicken45 so who's that in the photo on the right that totally kicked your butt in the "epic beard" department? 

[chicken45]

Sorry this took a few days to get to, but... the group photo(shop).

I look like such a small guy next to the colossal hoss that is Ben.