Corrections & Updates

6/25/09  "Pre-event Online registration is closed." "Registration re-opens at the Connecticut Convention Center on Sunday July 5, please join us there."

6/16/09 The sub museum has elected not to be open on Tuesdays this summer. General Tour G3415, the Tuesday trip to the Submarine Museum and Mystic Port has been cancelled. However, the Thursday trip to these same locations is still going to proceed as planned.

6/14/09  The UPDATED Operating Session Assignments are now viewable. Click this link to view the spreadsheet of assignments. http://www.opsig.org/convention/hartford_layouts/operators.master.3.xls

6/9/09  Self-Guided New London Tour  L-4427  All Day Wednesday - The Providence Northern Model RR Club in Warwick, RI has been added to this tour. 

Scale: HO - Providence Northern Model RR Club -  Providence Northern - Size: 35 x 60 Scenery: 10% Theme: 1985 New England  After moving into their new home just a year and a half ago this group has been busy constructing the “Providence Northern” RR. The line runs from Rhode Island up through Vermont into Canada. Featured will be the cities of Providence, St. Johnsbury, Framingham and Rumford, NH. It features two large staging yards, a scratch built paper mill complex and a scratch built replica of Framingham station. The layout is not fully operational, however branch lines are operating.

6/1/09  Your Operating Session Assignments are now viewable. Click this link to view the spreadsheet of assignments. LINK REMOVED, SEE 6/14/09 NOTE ABOVE

6/1/09 OP-SIG - THE MODEL RAILROAD CLUB, INC. SESSION FOR JULY 11 - Canceled.

6/1/09   P-3130 & P-3231  CENTRAL OF NEW ENGLAND  Prototype Tour - Canceled. This is both of the Tuesday Tours. The Thursday tours are still on the schedule to run.


5/28/09  P-2303 The Monday Essex dinner train is SOLD OUT!


5/27/09   Layout Tours

L-2405 RI East - Canceled

L-3416 Central Mass - Canceled

L-5439  Central RI   a self drive tour - Canceled


5/26/09 L 3418 North Boston Layout Tour is SOLD OUT!


5/16/09  Operating sessions have been added that were not on the original sign up matrix.  If you are an Op-SIG member and want to be included in one of these sessions, contact Al Oneto by e-mail at:   aloneto@optonline.net  

Added:  Saturday 7/11 (11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)  North Shore Club,  about two hours from Hartford in Boston area.

Sunday 7/5 (2:00 -5:00 p.m.)  Dave Ramos, New Jersey (on your way to convention 2 1/2 hrs. from Hartford.


5/8/09  Regretfully, due to the limited number of reservations received to date the Providence & Worcester tours P-7450 and P-7451 are cancelled.


5/6/09 The Historic Rail Station tour P-5440 is SOLD OUT  - there is no wait list.


4/21/09 The Golden Age of Trucking Museum tour P- 3216  (afternoon trip)  has been merged into Golden Age of Trucking tour P- 3112,  thus the only tour to the trucking museum will run in the morning.


4/8/09 Tour P-5429  CT Antique Machinery Museum has been Withdrawn.


3/27/09 The LDSIG Banquet price was incorrectly listed at $85. The correct price is $80. IF you sent in your forms and payment based on the $85 price, you will receive a $5 refund from the NMRA Convention. The registration form with the proper price is now posted.


2/20/09 Correction to the Layout Tour Schedule. The date on the North Boston L-3418 is incorrect. The date should read Tuesday, July 7th.

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