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NASG ANNUAL CONVENTION |
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STEAMTOWN USA SCHEDULE |
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JULY 24 - 28, 2001 |
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Tuesday July 24th
10am Registration Table Opens- Outside of main ballrooms
2pm Early bird layout tour 1 leaves. Home Layouts Allentown. Frank Titman
2pm Early bird layout tour 2 leaves. Home Layouts Hershey. Bill Fraley
Please come to departure point 1/2 hour early
Wednesday July 25th
7am-10pm Hospitality Room #521 Open
8am Registration Table Opens
9am Steamtown Opens 9am-5pm
10am Trip # 3 Leaves Should be back between 4 -5pm
Coal History Tour
Please come to departure point 1/2 hour early
2pm Contest Room Opens. Bring your entries. —Delaware Room
3pm Trade rooms available for dealer setup
5pm Contest Room Closes
7pm Ladies Fashion & Cosmetics Show By OMO & LENOR’S
At the Clarion Hotel in the Majestic Ballroom
Transportation Provided
7pm Trade Rooms opens — Scranton Ballroom
7pm Reopen Contest Room. Bring your entries.
7pm Clinics
Repairing American Flyer — Dan Emick -Western Room
S on the Internet — Paul Yorke -Lackawanna Room
8pm
Getting a S scale car project started — Jim Kindraka-Western
Build an S craftsman car kit — Bill Fraley — Lackawanna
$5 ea. You keep the kit
10pm Hospitality Closes
10pm Trade Rooms Closes
10pm Contest Room Closes
10pm Clinics End
Thursday July 26th
7am
-10pm Hospitality Room #521 Open
7am Registration table opens
7:30am Trip # 5 leaves. Strasburg Train Special
10am Trade rooms opens
Please come to departure point 1/2 early
10am Trip # 4 leaves. Ladies Shopping Trip
Please come to departure point 1/2 early
2pm Contest Room Opens. Bring your entries
5pm Trade Rooms Closes
5pm Contest Room Closes.
7pm Trade Rooms Reopens
7pm Contest Room Reopens
7pm Starting in Sn3 — Dave Heine -Western Room
Modifying S cars with loads — Gil Hulin-Lackawanna Room
8pm Layout switches operated by air —Gregg Spence—Western Room
Operating today’s Diesel Locomotives — Lee Schultze
Lackawanna Room
10pm Hospitality Room Closes
10pm Trade Rooms Closes
10pm Contest Room Closes
10pm Clinics Ends
Friday July 27th
7pm-1pm Hospitality Room # 521 Open
8am BOT Meeting
9am Registration Table Opens
9am Trade Rooms Opens
9am Contest Room Opens. Bring your entries
10am Clinics
Driving a steam engine — Fordy Smith- Lackawanna Room
Building a Trolley layout — Tom Dougherty-Western Room
11am Arts & Crafts for The Home by Linda Mornar
of Twigs & Sprigs — Lackawanna Room
12pm Trade Rooms Closes
12pm Contest Room Closes
12pm Clinics Ends
2pm Steamtown Train Ride leaves from Convention Hotel
Departs from rear of Radisson Hotel
Please Come To Departure point 1/2 hour early
4:30PM Bow Making for the Home by Linda Mornor of Twigs & Sprigs
Lackawanna Room
5pm-10pm Hospitality Room #521 Open
5pm Contest Room Opens. Last Chance to enter contests
5pm Trade Rooms Opens for the Open House.
We are having this event to spread the news about
S Gauge Model Railroading to the general public.
The trade room and layout room will be available.
6 pm S on the Internet — Paul Yorke-Lackawanna Room
Starting in Sn3 — Dave Heine-Western Room
7pm Introduction to DCC with Michael Greene -Lackawanna Room
Basic American Flyer Repair — Bill Emick -Western room
8:30pm
Build an S Craftsman Kit — Bill Fraley- Lackawanna room
$5 ea. You keep the Kit
10pm Hospitality Room #521 Closes
10pm Trade Rooms Closes
10pm Contest Room Ends
Saturday July 28th
7am-1pm Hospitality Room #521Open
8:30am Open Registration Table
9am Trip # 6 Houdini Magic Show leaves back about 12pm
9am Trade Rooms open
9am CONTEST ROOM CLOSED FOR JUDGING WILL
REOPEN AFTER BANQUET FOR VEIWING AND
CONTEST ENTRY PICKUP.
10am Business meeting for the membership in Lackawanna Room.
1pm Hospitality Room #521 Ends
1pm Clinic
TV/monitor
Introduction to DCC with Michael Greene-Western Room
1pm Trade Rooms Closes for tear down.
WE MUST BE OUT BY 4PM
2pm Trip # 7 Everhart Museum Leaves Back about 4pm
3pm Clinics End
5-7pm Happy Hour In the lobby
7pm-? Banquet
Special Speaker Kip Hagen Superintendent of Steamtown
He will talk about the History of Steamtown
11pm ? Auction. AUCTION MAY START EARLIER
DEPENDING ON LENGTH OF BANQUET
THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, DEPENDING ON ANY
UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCIES
FRIDAYS STEAM TRAIN RIDE
Is a two hour (approximate), 26-mile round-trip excursions on the former Pocono mainline of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad between Scranton and Moscow (PA) allow a glimpse back into the heyday of steam passenger railroading!
STEAMTOWN & THE ELECTRIC CITY TROLLEY MUSEUMS
Both are open 9am-5pm
Both are a 5-minute walk from hotel. Transport is available at hotel
Steamtown offers a verity of tours.
The Rangers Choice Tours are both historical and technological based.
The Locomotive shop and Machine shop tours are also available.
Also if you’re at Steamtown between 9am-10pm you can watch the
Engine crew prep their loco for the day’s assignment.
All tours are run everyday at different times.
Entry to Steamtown with tours and the Trolley Museum are included with your
Convention registration fees.
BRING THOSE CAMERAS!!
MODEL AND PHOTO CONTESTS.
Your may enter your models or photos in the contests any of the hours the
Contest room is open except Saturday.
Our contest chairman has in store some great things for this years contests.
So bring those photos and models.
CLINICS
As you can see the clinics are setup when there isn’t a lot going on.
Clinics will be on the following.
DCC - Michael Greene, DCC NMRA working group NASG Webmaster
Del-Aire. Air instead of electric switch motors- Gregg Spence, Del-Aire
Basic American Flyer repair Dan Emick, Scranton area AF repairmen
Freight car building — Bill Fraley Hands on clinic. Cost $10. which will
Included a Perma-Built kit and glue to begin one
Of these kits, yours to take home.
Modeling in Sn3- Dave Heine, narrow gauge writer for the NASG Dispatch
S Trains on the Internet. - Paul Yorke curatoInternet S Trains Digest
Getting a Scale project started. - Jim Kindraka, owner or River Raisin Models
Modifying S cars with loads and paint- Gil Hulin, NASG Western VP
Build a Trolley layout- Tom Dougherty, Pennsylvania Heritage Models
Driving modern Diesels — Lee Schultze, former Penn Central And Conrail
Engineer
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