Having lived in the humid midwest and visiting back there many times in the summer, many times! When it is in the mid nineties here in California it feels just about like the low 80's back in the humid east. If you drive around Sacramento you will also soon discover that they have more trees in that city than the PRR had boxcars. The mosquito population is very sparse though. I do think I was there and down at the river rafting and I saw one, not sure though. You pretty much have to go up into the Sierras to find them. They are friendly too and will stop often to visit As far as anyone putting down California we are very use to that. This last weekend with in 150 mile of Sacramento you could have gone scuba diving of the coast, or sailing, maybe got to Santa Cruz, visit the really fine Sn3 layout and take in some surfing or the Shay train up the mountain. there was always that guy in Los Altos. If that wasn't you idea of fun there was Skiing over the 4th of July up in the Tahoe area. Stay away from all the old Casinos though. They just take your brass locomotive funds. I didn't even mention the wine train, the trains at Jamestown, The trolleys at Rio Vista, or a myriad of other activities all with in 150 freeway miles from the convention center. Remember that word, "freeways". We do have toll bridges but the rest is freeways, no tolls. The speed limit is also 70 mph The california Railroad Museum is not as big as the Scranton operation but it is still very nice. The only bad part is too many places very close by to buy food and drink. There is also at least one S scaler at the convention that is into PRR, kind of levels the playing field for Eddie L. The rest are mostly SP. I guess there are not very many S scalers that model SP out here though. If there were then maybe River Raisin might import an SP engine or two. If memory serves me correctly Mr Lane did come to California for the 2000 NASG. I also heard that every thing S scale oriented this year was a sell out at the convention. I was told that Duluth and St Louis did not do that well, just a rumor though. They are both back east near the Heartland of S scale.
Grumpy Rusty --- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote: > > Not really sure why you've taken to slamming the convention city; I would > think you would want to be more supportive of efforts to promote and bring > folks together for S Scale; after all, some day you may want us to come to NJ > in the summer! > > For the record, the official high in Sacramento yesterday was 95 degrees, not > bad considering the average high for the area in July is 94. BTW, average > July highs in Chattanooga are 90 (and a tad more humid!). Not sure where > your info is coming from, mine is from weather.com... > > Back to S scale; anyone in Sacramento have anything exciting to report?? > > Jim Kindraka > Plymouth, WI > > --- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@> wrote: > > > > From what I heard last night Old Sac is a tepid 109 in the day. It pretty > > much makes me glad I am still in South Joisey. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
