The Northern Ohio Garden Railway Society had a display at this year’s Great Berea Train Show. It was sponsored by the NMRA Division 4. It was their 50th year and it was held on October 5th and 6th. Allen Nickels brought out his portable live steam track and Dennis Roth brought up some club track and electric trains to run.

We got started on Friday the 4th at 12noon and put together the electric trains in the middle. There was a Thomas the Tank engine pulling a train full of Minions to delight the kids. A long Piko passenger train was running to keep us grownups happy. Around that, we assembled the 20’ by 26’ live steam track. A long live steam passenger train was running around the outside while logging locomotives hauled a log train around on the inside.

We were a hit with the attendees, with many telling us we had the best display there. There were a lot of kids that stuck around for a while to watch Thomas pulling the Minions. A few of them were fascinated with the live steamers and were running laps around the track, keeping up with the steamers.

It was a good venue to hang our banner from the display and to get us noticed by the train hobbiests in the area.

The following club members helped to build the display and to staff it to operate it and talk to the public:

Hank Andrews, Steve Blake, John Musser, Allen Nickels, Dennis Roth, John Thompson.

Please thank them for their support of the club and the hobby.

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