2023 Philly Model Train Show

I have lots of good memories from childhood regarding my dad's trains.

Fun video Fran. Thanks for posting! I did spy some N gauge American Flyer. That is what I collected until I retired and sold it all off to downsize.

Richard H. Shores

It's interesting the predominance of freight running. In the UK, it's rather more passenger trains.

Bob Pockney

Deltic. Certainly one of my favourite locos, drove one a few years ago.

Bob Pockney

Keep an eye peeled for British Rail Deltec locomotives. If you don’t know about the Deltec engine, it has six pistons in three cylinders with three crankshafts. It’s brilliant and supremely British.

Mike O'Dell

Wow! I almost forgot I went through an HO scale train phase myself in the late 70s. I loved building my own towns and railroad routes. Buying a functional semaphore was a big deal. But I was still a "kid" back then and I had a very hard time growing my railroad because I had very little money. My parents were not going to fund my hobby, nor should they have, and I eventually moved on to other things. Picking IBM's dumpsters for electronics was free and plentiful. That's when you could throw away anything into a dumpster and no one cared.

Matt Wietlispach

Some of those setups looked pretty realistic, especially that Coal Country one.

Louis Perge

Fun. Our local annual train show looks a lot like this. It’s a fun time but I haven’t been for years because it happens downtown where it’s impossible to find parking. My local train shop expanded significantly years ago and now has several large layouts set up and running many weekends. It’s much easier to go hang out there on a Saturday for a quick train fix 👍

Christopher Isert

Way back I had a friend in the neighborhood who got a train set for Christmas. He told me he could never get it to work so I said I'd take a look. I fixed his problem when I told him that setting up the track on his deep pile shag carpet might not be a good idea.

-Jeff-