National S-Gauge Convention
- Scranton
Note: This file was copied 4/28/01
from the "Schedules" page of the National Ass'n Of S-Gaugers
convention site at
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STEAMTOWN USA
2001
Tentative
Schedule
July 24-28
2001
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Tuesday July 24th:
- 10am Registration Table Opens
- 2pm Early bird layout tour 1
leaves
- 2pm Early bird layout tour 2 leaves
- Please come to departure point _
hour early
Wednesday July 25th
- 8:30am Registration Table
Opens
- 9am Steamtown Open 9am-5pm
- 9am Trade Room Available for Dealer
Setup
- 10am Trip # 3 Leaves Should be back
between 4-5pm
- Please come to departure point _
hour early
- 2pm Trade Room Opens
- 2pm Contest room opens. Bring your
entries.
- 5pm Trade Room Closes
- 5pm Trade Room Available for Dealer
Setup
- Ý5pm Contest Room Closes
- 7pm Reopen Trade Room
- 7pm Reopen Contest Room. Bring your
entries.
- 7pm Clinics Start
- 10pm Trade Room Closes
- 10pm Contest Room Opens
- 10pm Clinics End
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Thursday July 26th
- 7am Registration Table Opens
- 7:30am Trip # 5 leaves. Strasburg Train
Special Leaves
- Please come to departure point _
early
- 10am Trip # 4 leaves. Ladies Shopping
Trip
- Please come to departure point _
early
- 2pm Trade Room Opens
- 2pm Contest Room Opens. Bring your
entries
- 5pm Trade Room Closes
- 5pm Contest Room Closes.
- 7pm Trade Room Reopens
- 7pm Contest Room Reopens
- 7pm Clinics Start
- 10pm Trade Room Closes
- 10pm Contest Room Closes
- 10pm Clinics End
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Friday July 27th
- 9am Registration Table Opens
- 9am Trading Room Opens
- 9am Contest Room Opens. Bring your
entries
- 10am Clinics Start
- 12pm Trading Room Closes
- 12pm Contest Room Closes
- 12pm Clinics end
- 2pm Steamtown Train Ride leaves from
Convention Hotel
- Departs from rear of Radisson
Hotel
- Please Come To Departure point _ hour
early
- 5pm Layout Room Opens for the OPEN
HOUSE
- 5pm Contest Room Opens. Last Chance to
enter contests
- 5pm Open House starts
- We are having this event to spread the
news about
- S Gauge Model Railroading to the general
public.
- The trade room and layout room will be
available.
- 5:30pm BOT Meeting
- 10pm Layout Room Closes
- 10pm Trading Room Closes
- 10pm Contest Room Closes
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Saturday July 28th
- 8:30am Open Registration Table
- 9am Trip # 6 Houdini Magic Show leaves
back about 12pm
- 9am Open Trade Room
- 9am CONTEST ROOM CLOSED FOR JUDGING
WILL REOPEN AFTER BANQUET FOR VEIWING AND CONTEST ENTRY
PICKUP.
- 10am Business meeting for the
membership.
- 1pm Clinics Start
- 1pm Trade Room Closes for tear
down.
- WE MUST BE OUT BY
4PM.
- 2pm Trip # 7 Everhart Museum Leaves Back
about 4pm
- 3pm Clinics End
- 5-7pm Happy Hour In the lobby
- 7pm-? Banquet
- 11 pm Auction. AUCTION MAY START
EARLIER DEPENDING ON LENGTH OF BANQUET
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- ÝTHIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT
TO CHANGE, DEPENDING ON ANY UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCIES
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FRIDAYS STEAM TRAIN
RIDE
Is a two hour (approximate), 26-mile
round-trip excursions on the former Pocono mainline of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad between Scranton and Moscow (PA)
allow a glimpse back into the heyday of steam passenger
railroading!
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Steamtown And the
Electric City Trolley Museum
- Both are open from 9am-5pm
- Both are about a five-minute walk from
hotel.
- Transport is available at
hotel
- Steamtown offers a variety of
tours.
- Rangers Choice Tours are historical and
technological based
- Locomotive shop and Machine tours are also
included
Also if you're at Steamtown
between 9am-10am you can watch the engine crew prep their loco for
the day's assignment.
- All tours are run everyday at different
times.
- Entry to Steamtown with tours and the
Trolley Museum are included with your Convention registration
fees.
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- BRING THOSE CAMERAS!!
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Model & Photo
Contests
- Your may enter your models or photos in
the contests any of the hours the
- Contest room is open except
Saturday.
- Our contest chairman has in store some
great things for this years contests.
- So bring those photos and
models.
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Clinics
As you can see the clinics are setup when
there isn't a lot going on.
- Clinics will be on the
following.
- DCC - Michael Greene, DCC NMRA working
group NASG Webmaster
- Del-Aire. Air instead of electric switch
motors- Gregg Spence, Del-Aire
- Basic American Flyer repair Dan Emick,
Scranton area AF repairman
- Freight car building &endash; Bill Fraley
Hands on clinic. Cost $10. Included a Perma-Built kit and glue to
begin one of these kits, yours to take home
- Modeling in Sn3- Dave Heine, narrow gauge
writer for the NASG Dispatch
- S Trains on the Internet. - Paul Yorke
curator Internet S Trains Digest
- Getting a Scale project started. - Jim
Kindraka, owner or River Raisin Models
- Modifying S cars with loads and paint- Gil
Hulin, NASG Western VP
- Photography &endash; Bill Buck, Ritz
Camera of Scranton.
- Build a Trolley layout- Tom Dougherty,
Pennsylvania Heritage Models
- Driving modern Diesels &endash; Lee
Schultze, former Penn Central And Conrail Engineer