Rich Yoder and John Dunn put on another O Scale Show in Strasburg on August 6, 2011. The show was very well attended and there were a number of new things to see at the show. One of the bigger items that was on a couple of tables was Weaver’s new Lackawanna Pocono 4-8-4, one of them is in the lead photo on theis post.

Rich Yoder also had his new Mathieson Dry Ice car.  I didn’t photograph the car because I was to busy going through his stock of trucks. One his table he had O scale and P48 versions of two new trucks, the PRR 2F-F2 and the PRR 2D-F12. I’ve added the measurements for the new trucks into the P48 Wheel Standards page.

I was also able to pick up an older Precision Scale Co. C&O 50 ton twin class H5 with flat ends. We had been talking about this car on the Proto48 modelers board. Turns out this car is correct for one order of theErieoffset twins and is different than the Yoder cars that are correct for theErie. I’ll post more on that later this week.

I had the chance to meet and talk for a while to Jack Hill at the show. It was very nice to put a face with the models that I’ve seen in his blog.

After a nice morning of buying and selling, I had the pleasure of going to lunch at Jenny’s Diner on US 30 with other p48′ers, such as Martin Latowsky. That is starting to turn into a regular P48 Lunch outing.

Rich Yoder and John Dunn put on another O Scale Show in Strasburg on April 9, 2011. One of “My Favoriates” at the show was the EBT Fn3 Mikado from RY Models on display at the show. Everytime I see one of these locomotives I think about selling all the O scale and modeling the EBT with a pair of these models. I have to stay away from them. The light was showing off the nice Green of the locomotive as compaired to the Black on the hopper car.

It was a nice show, and well attended for an Eastern show. Turned out to be a nice day to catch up with some old friends. It always amazes me how long it takes to walk around this show even though it’s not as big as a mid-west show. There is someone to catch-up on the news with every few feet.

Here is a view of the second room as the show was winding down.

RY Models display of O scale trucks and other currently available models.

Mac (Michael Macewan) proto48’er and former president of Cherry Valley Model Railroad Club behind a table and not wanting to be photographed.

Michael Rahilly behind his table. He was nice enough again to give me some space on his table to move some extra things. And he didn’t complain when I stepped away from the table and didn’t seem to came back for a long time.

More of the folks enjoying the show. In all farness to John and Rich, I took these photos as the show was winding down. Some of the dealers had already made for the exit, that’s why there were a couple of empty tables in the photos. They did have dealers on them earlier but the crowd was to heavey to really see the room.

As I said it was a nice day to catch-up with some old friends, pick up some materials for some projects, and just enjoy the company of others that enjoy the hobby.