... Actually the Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show in _West_ Springfield, MA... The 2010 show is over, so we will see you in 2011... Start your...
You are invited to the South East Michigan OPS weekend April 23rd, 24th & 25th The SEMICHOPS web site is up and running, http://www.semichops.org/ Please go...
Is there a matrix of details of the layouts?? Normally I expect to see details like: Operations type (TT&TO, CTC, Warrants, verbal, ...) Car management type...
Ken See Bruce's comment below. Also when you get to the list of layouts if you click on the RR Herald it will take you to a picture of the RR or owner and the...
Thank you John, I have my respect back. I don't often get further east than East St. Louis. Springfield IL would be a reasonable drive however. ... self...
And for any traveling operators who might visit the show, Sudro might be able to get you a slot operating on the ABLE layout. I was able to do so when it was...
So the details are buried in there (behind a lot of 'click on picture') but no master matrix so we could 'at a glance' see which ones we need to think more...
Hi Steve, over here in the UK, the term 'a lash-up' does not have a relationship to rail terminology, and it IS pejorative. It usually means a foul-up, SNAFU,...
This from memory I think there are 32 Springfields in the United States. And it wasn't the most common, there was more, I **think **Fairveiw which was...
Great place to railfan, good hobby shop just east. besides the ready accesss to pharmacuticals. Jon C. SP Inyo Sub. Beaumont Ind. Term. Acid for all, Soda for...
Guys, Since the original messages all were labeled Springfield MA, all this waste of bandwidth about how many Springfield's either shows how pointless some...
... Actually, it was in use earlier and later according to Webster. "Lash" is a 15th Century Middle English variation of the verb "lace"— as in "lace your...
It sure would be nice to see this topic a little more on topics about operation and industries. Discussing how many Springfiels there are in the US is off...
... In the UK, double headed means two diesel locos working in multiple. Here in North America, doubled headed still means two locos each driven by it's own...
Piggybacking on Ken's comments here. We're talking about an amazing modular layout here. It's huge. In fact it's so large that you would hesitate to try...
I was told the length of the run was over 800 feet. Now I don't know if that was the true length of the run, or really only half since it was all double...
