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I went to the fall 2016 TCA Ponchatoula, LA show on November 5, 2016.  Ponchatoula is near Hammond, LA and the intersection of I-10 and I-55 and near Baton Rouge and N.O. They had 40, 8-9 foot long tables with some sellers having up to 5 tables.  They also had one large S gauge layout, a medium HO and O gauge layouts and 3 smaller layouts.  The train meet was well attended and was part of the Ponchatoula Trade Days (about 100 booths of antiques and crafts and food along a rail road track in downtown) held twice a year about 2 blocks from the 1st Baptist Church Gym where the show was.

I had a fair day and purchased a couple of cars (best a Lionel lighted 9541 Railway Express Agency car to go with my newly acquired General 4-4-0) and 24 Lionel fast angle plastic trucks with working couplers and a few free old train magazines and catalogs.  I am always needing trucks.

 

Some of the sellers tables and all the goodies !

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Note the Crawfish Tail candy dish on bottom right.

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I thought you train guys would like to see some of a Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co. engine

on a side track at the Trade Days Fair.

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This picture was early, it was crowded later.

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Charlie

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No local train shows, so I went to the Alameda  Point Antique show in Alameda California with 1000+ tables all pre-1996 vintage.

I brought a $40 Lionel 397 coal loader and $10 Lionel prewar homemade control board with Jefferson Transformer and Lionel speed controller and circuit breaker .

Not bad for non-train show sale.

Ponchatoula LA:

OK - the big stomach in the dark shirt and jeans is me; I was cleaning the coffee off of a PW metal PRR caboose that I had accidentally baptized while talking to the vendor (Lance - fortunately he knows me). I also doused the black log dump car next to it. These cars were cleaner than they had been in years after I finished cleaning up. It was not a big splash.

Yes, I know to not walk around a train show with food or drink; I was on the way back to my own table with my coffee, and his tables were next to the food/drink vendor, and I stopped for a second...

Muy embarrassing.

 

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