Scheduling big trainshows and smaller get-to-gethers used to be a
no-brainer in most cases. Clubs and the big promoters tried to schedule
around each other, generally respecting legacy events that are held in
the same place at the same time.
However, if you're a member of a couple of local clubs, perhaps a RPM
group, perhaps a couple of historical groups plus both the NMRA (local,
regional, and national conventions) plus the NASG that can pretty much
take up much of your life not to mention your $$. There is bound to be
some overlap even in the same geographical area.
Besides that, sometimes a big national show will try and nose in on an
ideal time normally held by a smaller event. This going to happen to a
local/regional event that my "all scale club" has put on yearly for the
last several years. It so happens that a national show (the former GATS
people that went bankrupt a few years ago) is going to invade our show,
but one week earlier. So sometimes it's just too many events going on
and sometimes it just plain big vs little and furthering the hobby vs
the money! The strange thing is that my club pays reasonably well for
the modular clubs that participate, while the national show prefers to
have clubs display "for the good of the hobby"--sure--the less they pay
the more they take out of our community.
Bob Werre
> Jack,
>
>
> It is remotely possible someone would want to go to both. Why compete?
> There
> are plenty of weekends to choose from. These are the kind of events that
> reenergize a dormant S Scaler and are small and informal enough to welcome
> or seal the deal for a newbie. The 1987 CJSS Get Together absolutely
> got me
> started.
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
>
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