In case anyone is interested, here's what I've been doing for the last few days. The 'invasion' will continue into early next week.
Journey to Hershey 2019
Cheater invades PA... again
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, Oct 09 2019 05:40 AM
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Posted 09 October 2019 - 05:40 AM
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Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
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Posted 09 October 2019 - 06:35 AM
Learning to drive your slot car as if it was on rails? 
Being that my other hobby is the less competitive world of model railroading, thanks for volunteering your time to a great organization.
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Posted 10 October 2019 - 12:05 PM
That's some adventure, Greg!
Thank you for sharing.
How many "Hershey Bars" will you bring back home with you? LOL.
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Posted 10 October 2019 - 12:12 PM
Thanks again for all the great linked photos.
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Posted 10 October 2019 - 03:25 PM
I'll be down at the PA RR museum in about three weeks.
"Whatever..."
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Posted 10 October 2019 - 03:45 PM
How many "Hershey Bars" will you bring back home with you?
Probably none. I'm not a big fan of chocolate, to tell you the truth. I prefer white chocolate, which of course isn't chocolate at all.
I had one chocolate-coated donut at the CCCA tent Wednesday morning and that's it so far.
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 01:42 AM
A fond memory from my youth (with a bit of schadenfreude mixed in) - it was the winter of '47 or '48 and the east was hit by a particularly heavy snow. The NY Central was heavily converted to diesel - and the diesels couldn't handle the heavy snow so they had to fire up some of the retired but still available steam power to pull the flagship long distance trains!
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 02:49 AM
There's something about trains, little boys and grown-up old men. 
Thanks for sharing, Greg.
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 04:27 AM
After working for about six months at the train museum, I am convinced that the Y male chromosome has at least one train gene somewhere along its length. There isn't a young boy who isn't crazy about trains...
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 06:40 AM
Someone needs to produce train slot cars so we can race them.
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 06:54 AM
They did!
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Posted 11 October 2019 - 08:57 AM
Way back Aurora made Model Motoring track sections that mated with Revell brass snap-track to create a grade level crossing.
When I had an HO layout, I used them to merge my slot cars with my model railroading. The cars were the reed motor type.
