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The 2006 PCRRHS convention was held on September 14-16, 2006, in Timonium, MD. These photos were taken by Jerry Jordak, Jim Hebner, and Chuck French.
These were a few of the models on display on Thursday night.
Some of Jim Homoki's B60B baggage car models.
Chip Syme's "woolie" hopper car model.
Some of Gary Farmer's railroadiana on display or for sale.
Convention chairman Jim Reaves makes an announcement before we watched a Penn Central police video.
Secretary Chuck French, Treasurer Mike Beverley, and President Jim Homoki at the head table during the annual business meeting on Friday morning.
Friday afternoon, we went on a tour of the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship based in Baltimore.
This was the receiving area on the main deck of the ship.
Dave Hopson checks out a mock surgery going on in one of the ship's operating rooms.
Chip Syme gets his blood pressure checked in the intensive care unit area.
Some of the gang during Friday night's dinner stop at the Lansdowne Inn.
Friday night, we visited the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers in downtown Baltimore. This is a view of some of their HO scale layout.
A Western Maryland freight train makes its way through the mountains of the BSME's HO scale layout.
The BSME invited PCRRHS members to bring their own equipment to operate. Here, Stephen Tyk's PC FL9 leads a passenger train on the HO scale layout.
On the other side of the club, a PRR freight train runs along on the club's O scale layout.
PCRRHS treasurer Mike Beverley tries his hand at the BSME's portable O scale switching layout while Fran Richard and Fred Lewis look on.
Saturday morning, we visited the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
Camden freight house on the Museum's HO scale model railroad.
Posed in front of Western Maryland F7 236 are (L to R) Jerry Jordak, Chuck French, Dave Hopson, Bob Meier, and Mike Beverley.
A raffle was held Saturday morning to win a cab ride on one of the Museum's train rides. Here, Herb Brown and John Wilson pose in the cab of the Museum's SW1200 1200 with the engineer before their ride.
In the Museum's back lot is former PRR/PC GG1 4876, in need of some TLC. This locomotive is famous for crashing into Washington Union Station on January 15, 1953, after a brake failure while pulling PRR's Federal Express passenger train.
The convention group photo, on the Museum's SW1200 switcher (a former Conrail/PC/NYC locomotive).
Our speaker for the Saturday night banquet was author and journalist Rush Loving, Jr.
Afterwards. Mr. Loving signed copies of his recent book, The Men Who Loved Trains. Here, he signs a book for Frank Perrin and his son Franky.
A few pictures from the Saturday night banquet.
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