These two meets have both been held at about the same time for about ten years. I agree with Dennis Blake and Bill Welch that its a good thing that we have many RPM meets around the country and that its very difficult to avoid date conflicts. I hope to attend the Savannah meet one of these days. The dates don't always conflict.

The Greensburg PA meet has been held on the last weekend in March in odd numbered years since 2001. The Valley Forge PA meet is held in even numbered years.

For more info on the Greensburg meet check out our web site for much more information and a registration form:
http://www.hansmanns.org/rpm_east/2011.htm

I will post a more complete update when the speaker and vendor lists are more complete.

Larry Kline
Pittsburgh, PA

Larry

Being that I am somewhat involved with the Savannah Meet I think we need to work together to avoid this conflict. It has, as you stated, reared its head from time to time. Lets make it a point to communicate with each other as next years meets loom closer. Perhaps we can work together and eliminate this conflict.

Denis Blake



2011 Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet, May 19-21

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Central-Ohio-Prototype-Modelers-Meet/326645470797

I think there should be a clearing house (website) that would show
every RPM meet in the country.

Randy Williamson
www.prrfreight.com

Quoting Denis Blake :

Larry

Being that I am somewhat involved with the Savannah Meet I think we need to
work together to avoid this conflict. It has, as you stated, reared its
head from time to time. Lets make it a point to communicate with each other
as next years meets loom closer. Perhaps we can work together and eliminate
this conflict.

Denis Blake

2011 Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet, May 19-21

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Central-Ohio-Prototype-Modelers-Meet/326645470797

Um you mean like this one...http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.org/
click on other meets. If not all it has most.

Brian J Carlson

It's not just prototype modeler meets it's also various Society and NMRA meets that conflict. There just don't seem to be enough weekends to go around!
Rick Dietrichson
Wilmington, NC


From: Brian Carlson
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:53 AM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: Re: [STMFC] RPM meets in Greensburg PA and Savannah GA



Um you mean like this one...http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.org/
click on other meets. If not all it has most.

Brian J Carlson

--- On Thu, 1/13/11, Randy Williamson <pennsy@...> wrote:

From: Randy Williamson <pennsy@...>
Subject: Re: [STMFC] RPM meets in Greensburg PA and Savannah GA
To: STMFC@...
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 10:41 AM



I think there should be a clearing house (website) that would show
every RPM meet in the country.

Randy Williamson
www.prrfreight.com

Quoting Denis Blake :

Larry

Being that I am somewhat involved with the Savannah Meet I think we need to
work together to avoid this conflict. It has, as you stated, reared its
head from time to time. Lets make it a point to communicate with each other
as next years meets loom closer. Perhaps we can work together and eliminate
this conflict.

Denis Blake

2011 Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet, May 19-21

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Central-Ohio-Prototype-Modelers-Meet/326645470797
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kline
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:11 AM
To: STMFC list
Subject: [STMFC] RPM meets in Greensburg PA and Savannah GA

These two meets have both been held at about the same time for about ten
years. I agree with Dennis Blake and Bill Welch that its a good thing that
we have many RPM meets around the country and that its very difficult to
avoid date conflicts. I hope to attend the Savannah meet one of these days.
The dates don't always conflict.

The Greensburg PA meet has been held on the last weekend in March in odd
numbered years since 2001. The Valley Forge PA meet is held in even numbered
years.

For more info on the Greensburg meet check out our web site for much more
information and a registration form:
http://www.hansmanns.org/rpm_east/2011.htm

I will post a more complete update when the speaker and vendor lists are
more complete.

Larry Kline
Pittsburgh, PA

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There are at least 2 sites that are trying to list all of the meets. However this only works if meeting organizers send information about their meets to the web sites. Neither of the sites below is complete or up to date.

The protomeets Yahoo group which is intended especially for meet organizers:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protomeets/?yguid=188616595

and Joe D'Elia's Naperville site which has two lists of meets.
- http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.com/
- http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=61

Larry Kline
Pittsburgh, PA

Randy Williamson wrote:
I think there should be a clearing house (website) that would show every RPM meet in the country.

True, but the original question was regarding RPM meets. Since I am a board member of the NKPHTS I have had to miss the ELHS and PRRT&HS meeting a few times due to conflicts.
Bian Carlson.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:20:50 -0500, Rick Dietrichson wrote

Um you mean like this one...http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.org/
click on other meets. If not all it has most.

Yep, lists all of last year's meets :-)

I tried to do this once. Any sort of clearing house for prototype modelers is a fail.
Everybody does their own meet their own way, and it works out great - and most of the
same people attend the meets! There's a clear lack of desire for even an informal,
loose association to coordinate date conflicts. I know... I tried to start it 14 years
ago. It was obvious in a short time that the committee we created was in effect, King
of Nothing. What we have now works great and that's all I ever wanted. I made the
mistake of being an enthusiastic promoter of something that didn't need promoting -
pretty much everybody on board already knew the drill. To those not on board / in the
choir, I was just a vocal Rivet Counter Advocate to point a finger at for ruining the
hobby. Another lesson learned in middle age. The important thing is the outcome, which
is what I wanted to happen all along - even though I had nothing to do with it and my
efforts probably did more harm than good, we got there.

Andy

Denis,

The next Greensburg meet will be on March 29 and 30, 2013. We always have our meet on the last weekend in March. We make the hotel reservation two years in advance, i.e. right after each meet. We always post on this Yahoo Group and about 15 others in late October or early November.

I will be posting an update soon for our upcoming meet on March 26 and 27, 2011. And, thanks to Eric Hansmann, we have a web site for the Greensburg meet:
http://www.hansmanns.org/rpm_east/2011.htm

Larry Kline
Pittsburgh, PA

Denis Blake wrote:
Larry, Being that I am somewhat involved with the Savannah Meet I think we need to work together to avoid this conflict. It has, as you stated, reared its head from time to time. Lets make it a point to communicate with each other as next years meets loom closer. Perhaps we can work together and eliminate this conflict.

Andy's point is well taken. Still, isn't it worth a try.
I started the protomeets group on yahoo with the hope of having proto
meet organizers exchange ideas and talk about scheduling. There's no
reason historical society folks couldn't participate either.

We can give it a shot. Whatever we do wont' be perfect, but isn't it
worth a shot.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protomeets/?yguid=188616595

Sign on to the protomeets group. We're not an exclusive organization!

Dave Owens
West Hartford, Conn.


--
2011 New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet
June 3-4, 2011 (Always the weekend after Memorial Day)
Collinsville, Connecticut
www.neprototypemeet.com

You also have HS Archives Work Sessions to deal with scheduling-wise.   They depend on the same knowledgeable folks who are active presenters to mentor and describe "stuff" correctly in their archive collections.



Al Kresse

That RPM site does not have any 2011 dates.

If that page were kept up-to date it would work. How about a Google Calender with permission granted to allow other Google Calender users to access & integrate it with their own calenders. Only authorized persons could make changes.

Simple is usually better.

Rob Simpson