Sunday, October 23, 2022

New England Model Railway Convention at Armidale, NSW

Tuesday night this week, ee journeyed down to Darren’s on Tuesday night.  The occasion was because Andrew Campbell and his brother came up from the coast for the evening.  We split into teams and ran a couple of trains.  What a great night.

Friday was my son’s graduation assembly at school and spirit handover event.  That was running late, so my commencement of my trip to the Armidale Model Railway Convention was delayed by a half hour.  PK and Geoff C came to my place and we drove down together.  The first issue came at Aratula.  There was water over the road.  Cars were pulling over.  We could see some cars going through, mostly 4-wheel drives larger cars.  The water was at least 6” deep, about 40-50m across.  Other convention attendees advised that when they came through a few hours earlier, that the water was lapping the road.  So we passed the cars starting to pull over at the water, but we proceeded forward.  A semi-trailer was coming the other way.  So we let it come through the water.  I think the semi was being driven by Moses.  The water parted as he absolutely ploughed across and because of that we could see the road again.  But we could see the waves of water starting to come back across the road.  I floored it and we made our way across the water just as the waves washed back across the road.

We had no other issues on our trip to Armidale apart from some cars doing 50km/h in a 100 zone.  Really!

So we made it to the motel, PK and Geoff C checked in and we then walked through the hole in the wall and went to the Bowls Club to catch up with the other guys from Qld.  We met a few people we have not seen for maybe a couple of year.  We also met some new friends from NSW.

Saturday morning came around and registered for the Convention and caught up with many more friends not scene over the last few years.

If you want to find out more about the convention you will have to wait until tomorrow night, as the guys are waiting to head off to dinner.  So I will close this blog entry.

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