With no TTOS or TCA meets locally in So Cal due to the virus, a few of us from various local clubs got together for a open air tail gate meet. Even had a few operating layouts using battery converters. Masks were required and everyone had their temperature checked. Decent turnout. We will do it again next month. (Not my pictures).
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Steve - Congratulations on co - producing this safe and looks like fun train meet!
Glad to see someone is having a gathering.....it’s dead in Florida.....Haven’t had one all year......the ones I go to are Inclosed buildings........I’m a new member and appreciate all the helpful responses I’ve received from members......
With the weather warming up, next months meet will start about 7am. There is a bonus, on the other side of the parking lot, there is a car show going on.
Steve
This is something we hope to do in September at Pine Creek RR at Allaire State Park in Wall, NJ. Our club sets up a few layouts under a large tent for the weekend and we run trains for all the attendees who visit their narrow gauge railroad. After that, there are no scheduled indoor train meets in NJ until at least November. Bummer with no shows for now.
Steve, I think your open air, flea market style train meet with masks and social distancing is a great idea. Arnold
My kind of FUN!! We've been pondering doing the same in Central Arkansas in the Spring,Fall and Winter (Mild) months. A typical Arkansas Summer is scorching hot and awfully humid but there's certainly a lot of interest in doing a tailgate swap meet in the cooler months. We already have a couple of safe and suitable places picked out,we just need to set some dates.
AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!! Absolutely love this!!!! Great way to get back to 'normal' while following the right protocol. Great job!!! If I lived closer I would have attended to sure. Thumb up folks!!!!
@Ricky Tanner posted:My kind of FUN!! We've been pondering doing the same in Central Arkansas in the Spring,Fall and Winter (Mild) months. A typical Arkansas Summer is scorching hot and awfully humid but there's certainly a lot of interest in doing a tailgate swap meet in the cooler months. We already have a couple of safe and suitable places picked out,we just need to set some dates.
We will do it again on 7/25, but start at 7am. The guys want to beat the summer heat. I’m not a morning person, but I’ll be there.
Steve
GLAD you had a SAFE and FUN meet!
Great to see and hear about it. I hope everyone had fun.
We have 4 indoor train shows (that I know about) here in South Florida, two in the early part of the year (Feb/Mar) and two in the late part of the year (Sep/Oct). The March one got cancelled because of COVID-19. Here's hoping that the Fall ones will be able to go forward.
Almost everyone got the word. 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Almost everyone got the word.
He was a passerby in the parking lot, not a member of any of the clubs. He later put one on when asked.
Steve
@Ricky Tanner posted:My kind of FUN!! We've been pondering doing the same in Central Arkansas in the Spring,Fall and Winter (Mild) months. A typical Arkansas Summer is scorching hot and awfully humid but there's certainly a lot of interest in doing a tailgate swap meet in the cooler months. We already have a couple of safe and suitable places picked out,we just need to set some dates.
Little Rock? Or??????
Relief from housebound!
A big thank you to Steve and everyone else. I admit being the TTOS Southern Pacific Division President I did not sleep well the nights before trying to make sure we could keep everyone safe. My wife Denyse Meyer who is a nurse and two time breast cancer survivor did not take crap from anyone. She and Robin did temperature checks and got masks to those who were not wearing them. Should they refuse they were told to leave and a few outsiders did.
Best part we got out and had fun. Trains and great friends. A wonderful day it was!
So Cool! Trains and cars, two of my favorite things!
Ted, Greenberg has the Edison show in August scheduled. Hope it comes off, I want to come back to NJ to do it and visit family and friends.
It would be good to see some train shows come back, give us some sense of normalcy. 
@Mixed Freight posted:Little Rock? Or??????
I've talked to Craig about setting up the first one at the Bald Knob Depot sometime this fall. We could easily have the vendors set up in the parking lot. Looking at twice a year there and also having one in the Little Rock area. There's a couple of suitable places in Sherwood that would work as well.
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