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I am fortunate to have a lot of local toy/model train enthusiast friends and we shared a lot of time together this past week.

Last Sunday I went to a train show with friends in Lindenhurst, NY, then had a nice brunch.

Monday was spent helping a friend replace a loop of Standard gauge track with Gargraves 5 rail dual standard and O gauge track.

Wednesday was our monthly train guy lunch - 11 showed up this time - and then a home layout visit.

Thursday a friend and I helped another friend (who had a traumatic brain injury years ago) get his layout up and running again.

Saturday was spent at the Allentown First Frost meet.

Sunday I had two tables at a local meet in Farmingville, NY

How have you been enjoying the season and comradery of our hobby?

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This year, I'm setting up a 5' X 16'. Postwar style layout using Fastrack along one wall of our living room. I plan to set it up Thanksgiving and take it down after New Years. I have a 4 week break at work and plan to make a LOT of ozone and finish off a few bottles of Mega Steam! I'll make sure to post photos! That's about it for train season at my house this year. I'll be away on projects most of 2020 so the big permanent layout will have to wait.

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It snowed 2" on Halloween and 3" today. I put my Thunderbird away for the winter on Saturday. Now that my car hobby is done till April it's full time train season for me, at least where leisure time is concerned. I've got a bunch of scenery projects planned for my layout this winter so I should hopefully have enough to keep me busy. 

Good evening, yes it started about a month ago.

Myself and 4 other individuals from here in the Indiana Pennsylvania has put together a fairly large modern MTH and Lionel layout in a empty store in the Indiana Mall.

Along with our layout we have 15 other layouts in different size and scales.

Attached are a couple of photo’s I took this morning when we were making the final adjustments and tweaks.

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Been a rough year all around for me, didn’t even go to York or Allentown. Did spend Sunday in the basement, cleaning my layout, some displays, and organizing the basement itself. This weekend I will set up my basement Christmas tree. Next weekend, I will bring in the train layout that supports our main tree. Always takes a solid week to put it all together. 

Can’t wait to get rolling.

It’s full throttle for me from September to about June that’s my season. Got the green light from the tower to build a layout in our once was a dinning room and the table is about done for the big layout in the garage and working on our Christmas layout under the tree. The layout will be O27 post war in the old dining room.  

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