Heads Up - Train O Rama in Dover on Sunday

Train O Rama Comes to Dover!

NORTHWEST JERSEY TRAIN-O-RAMA

WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Dover High School, 100 Grace St., Dover
TICKETS: Age 11 and older, $6; age 10 and younger, $3
MORE INFO: www.dovertrainshow.com

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/C0/20110317/NJENT/110316010/1026/Train-O-Rama-pulls-into-Dover-Sunday

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EnterTRAINment Junction this weekend

"The train display attractions hosts the 2011 Model Engineering Show from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.

“This fills up the big expo center and spills over,” said Bill Mefford, the publicist for EnterTRAINment Junction. “These are, in my opinion, artisans. Rather than just being small replicas, or what have you, this has moving parts.”

The show will bring in about 30 or 40 collectors, including Peter Villarreal, a volunteer at EnterTRAINment Junction who builds some of the bridges and other structures in the display."

 

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Model Train Show - Run by Enthusiasts

 

Great show - story courtesy of independantmail.com

EASLEY — Destiny Absher, 7, climbed across the seats of a small rail car Saturday while her friend Alex Beaty tested out the controls in the middle of the car.

15th annual Central Railway Model Train Show

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Three rail cars stood in front of the doors to the 15th Annual Central Railway Model and Historical Association Train Show at the J.B. Owens Sports Complex in Easley.

“Guess what? He said he might drive us in this!” Destiny said.

“He” was Jim Hopkins, a member of the Greenville Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Hopkins owns and operates two small rail cars, having ridden the rails with them in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. He’s been interested in trains for 10 years.

Destiny’s dad, photographer Jonathan Absher, is also a train enthusiast. He looked on while Destiny and Alex clambered over the rail cars as he spoke about an 8-foot-by-10-foot display he keeps in his Simpsonville home.“You just pay a fee and ride for the weekend,” he said of the Easley event.

“It’s an historical display covering from 1941 to the end of steam locomotives,” he said.

Inside the Bagwell Gymnasium at the sports complex, three full basketball courts will remain filled until 5 p.m. today with things related to trains. Model trains, building kits, reference and historical books, and train magazines are there. Items for model train landscaping, crafter’s tools, and sound systems and accessories for trains are available as well.

Trains for little hands are available at a low table that bears a wooden track complete with scenery, miniature signs and model locomotives. It sits very near the toy area, where train stickers, books, puzzles and play mats can be found. The fictional steam locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine — star of books, videos and more — is there too.

Dave Winans of Simpsonville stood Saturday in front of a model display that was 37 feet long. He said that he “has been interested in model trains all my life.”

“And she married into it,” he added, speaking of his wife, Anne, who stood beside him.

“The big issue is trying to encourage younger people into an interest in model trains,” he said. “Other than Thomas the Tank Engine, I don’t think they’re into it as much as they used to be.”

Several of the models on display from the Piedmont & Southern Model Railroad Club of Greenville were built by Winans when he was a part of the club 20 years ago. He now has a 2.5 foot-by-10 foot model, “not a very big one,” in his home, he said.

The club began in the 1980s and took its name from the two major railways in the area at the time, the Piedmont & Northern and the Southern.

Dave Cummins of Georgia kept a watchful eye Saturday on the longest train display in the Easley complex, a 66-foot model with 2-inch scale tracks. He is glad to talk about the old days, when train tracks were not standardized and ranged anywhere from 2 feet to 6 feet across. For Cummins, railroads run in the family.

“My brother was a railroad fireman,” he said. “They would call him to move an engine, and my father would drive him to the tracks in his Model T Ford. I was about 6 years old, and I would ride along.”

That’s when he began to love trains and everything about them, he said.

“Out of high school, I went to work on a 3-foot narrow gauge railroad as a switchman,” he said.

Besides vendors and model trains from all over the Southeast, a display from the Central Railway Museum is set up just inside the front doors at the event this weekend. The museum is in a house owned by the city of Central. The Central Railway Model and Historical Association has gutted and rebuilt the interior of the structure. Ettie Ruppert takes care of publicity for the association and builds scenery for displays at the museum.

Central was a major railroad town in the 1940s because it was centrally located between Charlotte and Atlanta, which is how the city got its name, said Jack Green, curator of the museum.

“Steam locomotives needed water every 100 miles and coal every 200 miles and had to be serviced every 24 hours,” Green said. “Central was the ideal location for that.”

In terms of model railroads, a lot is involved with building one — first the wooden framework, then the electronics, and finally the landscaping. The Central Railway Association has put more than 2,000 hours of labor into renovating the museum and building displays. The club’s original membership total of 15 has grown to 50.

Trains O Scale - Building Structures

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Trains O Scale

Train Show to be held Feb. 26-27 at J.B. Owens

EASLEY — The Central Railway Model and Historical Association Inc. will have its 15th Annual Train Show on Feb. 26-27 at the J.B. Owens Sports Complex, Bagwell Gymnasium, 111 Walkers Way, Easley.

Children younger than 10 will be admitted free with an adult.

Vendors will offer an assortment of train memorabilia, operating model trains including live steam, and a selection of fun activities for children. This year’s show will bring in train vendors from eight different states.

In addition to the over 200 dealer tables, a model of Thomas the Tank and James the Red Engine will be on hand for children to operate, while a full-size motor car will be available for kids to have their photograph taken on for free.

The event on Feb. 26 will be held from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Feb. 27 from noon until 5 p.m.

For more information and tickets, visit  www.crmha.org