Please note: If you are seeing this in more than one place, please pardon the cross-posting. Likewise, if you know of a forum where information about our meet would be relevant, please cross-post it.

Greetings: This is a reminder about this weekend's 2009 Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Mass. Here are the basics: The show is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat., Jan. 24; 10 a.m.

That's the same thought I had. Could this be a refinement or the "lost" tooling owned by the defunct American Precision Models, or is this new. It looks great, that's for sure. Dave Owens

We will look into it. Dave Owens

Our model room is a gathering place -- people come in, sit down, shoot the breeze, etc. Raising the tables would hamper that. Otherwise, it's a fine idea. They do it that way at the Philadelphia proto

Tom Murray said he will be posting descriptions as time permits. I'm posting descriptions in the comments section for those that I can remember off the top of my head. I also took notes. As others hav

Greetings: The 6th NE Proto Meet is quicky approaching and will be Friday and Saturday, May 30-31 at the Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave., Collinsville, CT. There are tours of Branchline Trains f

There is actually a Yahoo group devoted to TO&Es where this information would probably be available. I have used the group to obtain information for a military rail movement I am modeling. Here is the

Greetings: The sixth New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31, at the Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave., Collinsville, Connecticut. A terri

There was a typo in the original message. The show is indeed Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26 and 27, 2008. Thanks again, Dave Owens

Folks: I've just learned from John Sacerdote, the director of the Amherst Railway Society's Big Railroad Hobby Show, that the 2008 show will be expanded into a fourth building. The Mallary building, w

Here in Connecticut grapes were a popular commodity and would arrive by rail. The historical society in Torrington, Connecticut has accounts of grape-laden rail cars arriving in town with the entire l

Now now now boys. Mike is quite good in front of a crowd and a camera. Scott too. Both of these fine gents are very popular presenters at our annual prototype meet in Connecticut. I, on the other hand

More than two days of clinics, model displays, layout tours, prototype presentations and camaraderie intended to teach you a few new modeling techniques and to get you excited about doing some great m

Please excuse the cross-posting, but these mailing lists are the best way to spread the work about prototype meets. And if you haven't seen this on a list you frequent, and there are people on that li

... Collinsville, Conn. For more information, contact Dave Owens at daowens@... or visit our website: http://www.trainweb.org/neprototypemeet/ Please pass the word about the meet. Thanks, Dave O

There's been some talk about the need to try to coordinate the various prototype meets around the country so that we don't have them on conflicting weekends. It's a worthwhile goal. So I've put togeth

Greetings: This notice is to remind you all of this year's NE Proto Meet, scheduled for June 1 and 2. Please see our flier pasted below. And please forgive the crossposting. As we are a low- to no-bud

Greetings all: I just wanted to alert folks to the dates of the fifth New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet. The meet is Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2. There will be layout open houses on

Thanks to everyone who has responded and provided great information. And I'm still trying to figure out how I missed the photo on George Elwood's site. I obviously did not exhaust all the potential so