[John Wagner]

I got the room booked and I am ready for the show to arrive. Now if Uncle Sam would give me some spending $$ for the show I would be set. Patiently waiting...........

Looking foreword to seeing everyone again.

 

[vsmith]

John, long time no see on the forum, what happened to the FP45? did you ever finish it? hope to see you and it there.

 

[John Wagner]

Yeah its been a while for me on here. I spent most of the year finishing the Santa Fe Mikado bash and the F45 is still the grey ghost. Have not touched it all year. I run it on the house layout along with the U50 but she is still unfinished. The mikado is done and needing decals. I will talk to Stan at the show.
I can bring the units if there is a booth again this year and room for them. I would not want to take space away from new projects. I have not seen much about the show online here. Just so glad this year to have a room and be able to stay around and visit with friends.

 

[John J]

Ok I got my reservations for the hotel FOR THE BIG TRAIN SHOW. I am all set

 

[John Corradini]

John
Long time no see or no hear. Good to see you back.
Looking forward to seeing you at TBS.

 

[skatewake]

Hello to all,

I was thinking about going to this show. Is it really good? I won’t be able to see any of the display layouts at people’s houses but is there any in the convention center building? I live in San Jose and I will drive down only for Saturday. Any input would be appreciated

What do you guys think?

Thanks,

Charles

 

[John McGuyer]

There are several in the show itself including Del Oro Pacific. It is worth the drive all by itself.

John

 

[Dwight Ennis]

Charles - for whatever it's worth, once you've been around MLS a little while, the BTS becomes THE event of the year, primarily because it's the annual gathering of west coast MLSers. I've been going now since 2001, and it's the high point of my social year, not so much because of the show itself, but because it's the one time of the year I get to actually hang out with all the friends I've made here, run trains with them, have drinks with them, and socialize!

I live in Milpitas btw, and will mostly be found at the live steam track. If you do decide to go, make sure you stop by and stick out your hand!

 

[Gary Armitstead]

Charles,

Like Dwight said, it's the West Coast MLSer's social event of the year! Hope to see you there.

 

[Richard Schmitt]

The SUNDANCE CENTRAL MODULAR RAILROAD is being packed this coming week in two PODS for the trip from Florida to California for the Big Train Show. Hope to meet all the West coast MLS' attending the show. Stop by and say hello.
Richard Schmitt

 

[Josef Rieder]

I'll be there with Del Oro, it will be cool to meet some of you. Who knows, I might even have my MLS name tag by then

 

[Bob Baxter]

The Door Hollow Shortline modular railroad will also be there. Go to the Big Train Show website and then to the exhibitor's page and click on the buttons to see the websites of the layouts.

 

[Bob Starr]

And I will be there with the Live Steam track

 

[Dwight Ennis]

And I will be there with my live steam trains! hehehe

 

[Greg Elmassian]

I'll be there wearing my super bitchin' "Duncan" badge!

Hah!

Greg

 

[pcentral]

Charles,
By all means, come down to the show. I can just about guarantee that next year you'll make plans to be there both days of the show. Maybe even like several of the guys who have started showing up on thursday! As mentioned before, there will be some excellent layouts on display in the show hall and most if not all of them have at least one MLS member. Be sure and stop by the MLS booth and say hi to whoever is at the booth at the time.

I ask everyone to remember to come by the MLS booth and sign the member board EACH day! We do this so all members have the chance to see who else is in attendance from MLS. As we are all spread out around the show sometimes we don't know someone is at the show that we want to meet until after their gone.

Y made our reservations today for Friday and Saturday at the Marriott. We'll be coming into town Thursday night but won't be at the show until Friday AM.

Steve

 

[Duncan]

JJ,
Would you mind hauling some (4 total) badges to the show??
I had some made up for folks that ultimately couldn't make it to the convention, and I'd hate to waste the badges...
Maybe we could meet up at my office???

 

[John J]

Posted By Duncan on 05/19/2008 10:52 PM
JJ,
Would you mind hauling some (4 total) badges to the show??
I had some made up for folks that ultimately couldn't make it to the convention, and I'd hate to waste the badges...
Maybe we could meet up at my office???




I Don't know....That extra weight....and the cost of gass.......

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What are you doing this week end I have a 5 day week end.....E mail Phone numbers......I cleaned out my Email Box and forgot to write things down /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/shocked.gif

 

[Stan Cedarleaf]

This is gonna be a dandy show for me this year. Brian's asked me to do a bunch of images for him so I think MLS will be featured in a great way... : We'll be there to set up the Live Steam track and I'll be workin' for trains in the St Aubin booth.

Then there's the little one in the MLS booth. Steve n' Y, does he have his own TX for trains yet?

Richard, it will be great meeting you and we'll sure get a whole bunch of images of all the MLS manned modules. Dore Holler, Da Gold one, Liiiive Steem and the Zun Dancentral..... The ABTO guys from Phoenix will be setting up as well. It's gonna be a dandy show........

 

[toddalin]

We're featured on the Thursday bus tour. Would you guys like to do a pizza party here Thursday night? We are about 45 minutes to an hour (depends on traffic) from the show. You can even bring trains to run..., assuming they can get around 8 foot diameter curves.

http://tortoiseandlizardbash.com/