Strasburg Pa - O Scale 2 Rail Only Train Show/ Swap Meet

Well worth my 1000 mile round-trip drive for the firehouse coffee and donuts!  OK, just kidding, the show and the comraderie are unbeatable.  Looking forward to another great day at a Strasburg show.

I've already got 6 tubs of cars, engines (Overland PRR P5a anyone?  Cheap!), structures, and kits and kits, stripwood, and "stuff"....

I also understand that during this meet that they are going to auction off this built up kit:

to benefit the fire department!!!  Good cause that's been super in supporting this show, so pry open the wallets and shoo away the moths...

The Strasburg show has been an excellent market in which to sell down my rather large collection.  Having folks do cash and carry sales saves a lot when compared to packing, shipping and the prolonged transaction timeline of internet sales.

Thanks to the tremendous sales activity the Strasburg show provided I am almost totally out of stock for now.

Sadly, you all will miss my great deals, as I cannot attend this time.

It’ll be a long wait until April.

@PRR Man posted:

Sadly, you all will miss my great deals, as I cannot attend this time.

It’ll be a long wait until April.

Rats and other assorted rodents......I was hoping to have something special just for you!!!

Martin, What will your P5a be priced at?

Hey John, Pierre here.

if you see my former short green MEC Gon grab it for me! Lol.

have a fun show.

Is this show strictly 2-rail? I've never been to it and am curious. Thanks

@Radioman77 posted:

Is this show strictly 2-rail? I've never been to it and am curious. Thanks

There is 3-rail stuff there, but 90% is 2-rail. There is an abundance of detail/scenery items which look good no matter how many rails

Thanks I might wander down. John

@PRR Man posted:

Sadly, you all will miss my great deals, as I cannot attend this time.

It’ll be a long wait until April.

I bet i can make it to Tiparary before you make it to the April show.

Heavy presence of 3 railers at the Strasburg show.  They caught the scent of unique one of a kind structures, scenery items at great prices, little people and automobiles, and convertible rolling stock.  Plus Bob Lavezzi has a lot of Weaver repair parts from the company shut down.

I sold off approx. 150 freight cars over the last three shows for $8 - $10 - $12 each and about half of them were purchased by 3 railers for wheel swaps.

If anyone is thinking about getting into o scale trains and would happen to be concerned about the cost,  then just come to a 2 rail 0 scale swap meet like at the Strasburg firehouse.

There are bargains galore!  You may even come over to the  2 rail dark side.

$5 entrance, free parking, gigantic Pennsylvania State RR museum, live steam Strasburg RR, TCA headquarters, etc, etc.

Make a week end out of it.

@Tom Tee posted:

Martin, What will your P5a be priced at?

Contact me directly - not going to use this thread as a buy / sell and give some mod a reason to delete or relocate it elsewhere.

@Prr7688 posted:

There is 3-rail stuff there, but 90% is 2-rail. There is an abundance of detail/scenery items which look good no matter how many rails

Yup!  I will have a good number of built structures and a few kits as well as detail "stuff".....and a Sunset 3rd Rail PRR E6 just for the 3-rail buyer at a good price, too!

Show is tomorrow so stop by and say hello!

Loading up the car today and now I have even more "stuff" in the pile to bring.   Bundles of stripwood and a small glass work surface that folds up neatly so you can take your hobby on the road!

Driving up in the morning with a couple of 3 rail goobers.  Gonna see if we can spend our York bucks before we get to York on Thursday.

That show never disappoints in finding some absolutely necessary items you never ever thought about until you spot it on a table.  Nuggets of gold!

Get there early!!

There are some nine o'clock guys who speed through the aisles grabbing neat items in the first few minutes.  I missed a few highly desirable items cause I wanted to man my own tables. 

Then I would see some folks carrying items which I wish I had purhased.

@Boilermaker1 posted:

Driving up in the morning with a couple of 3 rail goobers.  Gonna see if we can spend our York bucks before we get to York on Thursday.

Wish I lived closer. Just remember: The best three-rail (3RS) rolling stock starts out as 2-rail rolling stock. The conversion is simple: (1) Remove from Box; (2) install new Kadees; (3) place on track.

Everybody come home with a full car and an empty wallet?

Hopefully this is my last "miss" and I can get back to coming to the shows.