 What's neat with Ken Patterson? It's always neat with Ken Patterson. October starts right now. Watch it! What's neat for October 2016? I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month is your ticket to ride to the St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet held in Collinsville, Illinois at the Gateway Center. 13,000 square foot with 40 manufacturers and vendors and many modular layouts. There were over 1,800 models on display in all scales. There were educational clinics to improve your modeling skills. Our friend Dave Hussie was there representing Canon and Company. Scale Code Paint had a pretty nice display. Shane Wilson and Paul Ellis from Scaltrains.com set up a pretty nice trade show booth. Our friend David Leibach from Tangent Scale Models had four new models announced this year and our very own Mike Buddy and Dirk Reynolds shared some of their latest modeling projects. We feature 15 manufacturers and one modular layout in this 40 minute edition of What's Neat. This What's Neat is put together to be one of the most entertaining and fastest 40 minutes in your month. And that's the lineup for this October 2016 What's Neat. I've run into Shane Wilson at Scaltrains.com and it's really cool to see manufacturers coming to this RPM Meet here in St. Louis. Shane, why is it that you felt the need to come to this show? Okay and first of all thanks for stopping to see us here at the RPM Meet in St. Louis. Really appreciate your time. And you know for us it's one of the opportunities for us to showcase our models. When we started we created four different brands and two of our brands really cater to the RPM model. One is the Rivet Counter brand, the other is the museum quality. And what better place to showcase your products than at the largest RPM Meet in the country. There's several hundred modelers here. They just announced there's over a thousand models. So it's a great way for us to meet the customers who really are going to buy our high-end products. Wow, so there you go. There's an endorsement for the show. And I'd like to see more manufacturers come to this show next year. The St. Louis RPM Meet held here in Collinsville. Thank you Shane. You're welcome. Thanks for coming to see us. Okay. I've got Dave Hussie here from Canon and Company. And Dave tell us something about your new kits that you're showing at the show. Okay. I'm making a series of laser cut boxcar kits. They're a craftsman kit that's composed of several layers of laser cut styrene to produce boxcars that are not available by other means. The kit includes the laser parts and maybe doors or ends depending on each kit. You know, and then I also supply a roof under frame, you know, and ends that I procure from other companies such as Athern, Atlas, Accurell, Paloco. Those are very nice parts. Very crisp castings. And we've got decals for some of the cars. And then we're also branching out into laser cut lumber loads that, you know, there's a recent wheels of time flat car came out. That's nice. And, you know, so it needed loads. So I've got the laser that I have for making the kits. So I'm making, you know, cutting up some strips of wood and laser engraving them. And in various board sizes. And the modeler gets a package with 10 strips of wood. And then they make, you know, they wrap them up into the individual bundles like this. Those look really terrific. How has this RPM shell been working out? Is this your audience? Is this the clientele? Yeah, very much so. You know, if I love this, you know, St. Louis meat, it's probably in my opinion, you know, the best meat going right now. You know, the fact that it's all in one location. You know, everybody's in the same room all the time. And you know, you end up getting the chance to talk to people and meet your customers. And get to see you, Kenny. You know, it's been years, you know. Everybody loves you, Dave. I appreciate it. And we hope you have a safe trip back. Okay. Good enough. Thanks. Good to see you. All right. He's got the most impressive off-the-shelf looking models that are available on his website to the public. So I wanted to talk to Dave here because he's got just a beautiful table, as you can see in this video footage. And I want him to tell us a little bit about his company. My promo load started about four years ago, building pipe loads. And it's evolved into building loads and custom loads for anybody. And, you know, I take photographs or out rail fending and come home and put them together the best I see and the best way I can. The rail load that you've done almost looks like a model that needs to be on the contest or on the presentation tables. It is just such a magnificent idea and the creativity that went into creating a full-length rail carrying system that is able to bend and work around the corners. How did you do that? That's correct. There's a lot of trial and error. Like everybody else, we tried nickel silver rail, which won't bend at all. I went to have found a plastics company to extrude styrene rail. And that was the ticket to make it work. And laser cutting the decks and the racks for the cars was pretty straightforward, just copying the prototype. But finding somebody to extrude rail and understand the concept of the welded rail train, that was a little bit of a challenge. You know, you approach some companies and you're talking model trains. You know, they want to talk to Boeing. They don't want to talk to me about model trains. So I found somebody, a small company, and had rail extruded and that answered the question. The trains performed flawlessly right down to 28-inch curves. And your airplane load looks so incredible, man. Well, thank you for showing and sharing your stuff with us on What's Neat. Check it out, folks, protoloads.com. These are some pretty impressive models. Thank you, Ken. I'm with Scott Thornton here at the Prototype Meet. And he's got a new throttle called the Protothrottle, which will work with any DCC system. And it also gives you all the features with an actual locomotive. Scott, tell us about this exciting new radio-controlled throttle. Well, thanks, Ken. What we're trying to develop along with Iowa Scaled Engineering is a throttle that works with any DCC system out there that replicates what you would experience if you were in a real cab of a diesel locomotive operating the actual control stand. So the throttle, this is just a first-generation prototype. So it doesn't have everything on it right now. You can see it here on some of our graphics that we have. We're going to have a spring-loaded horn. We've got the bell. We've got an LCD display that you can program things into the throttle. We've got a nine-position, so the idle and all eight-position detented throttle handle, as well as the reverser for forward, neutral, and reverse, as well as a feathered smooth operating brake. And then the lights at the bottom. Since this is a first-generation, the throttle will also have on the final version curved bezels, like you see in a prototype cab, and will have knobs here. And then the faceplate is aluminum, and it will be finished better than what you see here. No, this is pretty neat. It's lightweight. It's got a really good feel to it, and it's radio-controlled. That's important. Now, you could use this maybe with the Garden Railroad guys? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So how would folks get a hold of you to get a hold of a product like this? You're setting up a website. You're working on that now? We're working on that right now. I blog on the Model Railroad hobbyist site, so you can find information there. If you want to contact me, you can reach me at my phone number, which is... Do you want my phone number? Okay, 515-232-0328. Or I've got an email at info at designgrid.com. And what's going to be the price point of this when it comes out? We're thinking right now, if you bought the throttle, it comes also with a receiver, a wireless receiver that you have to buy once. We're thinking 450 to 500 range, and then if you buy additional throttles, they'll be cheaper. And about how long before this makes market? We're hoping to have it by the end of the year. Well, thank you very much, Scott, for sharing this with us. Thanks, Ken. Well, one of the more beautiful narrow-gauge layouts that's set up here at the prototype modelers meet is the Mud Hens. Now, this club has been around for a great many years, more than 35 years, and this layout is about eight years old. And I'm here with Chuck Graham, the president of the club. Chuck, tell us a little bit about how the show's going for you. What kind of reaction do you get on the layout? It's going pretty well after the initial setup glitches, which we always have with modular layouts, but it's been well received by the crowd. They've had a lot of questions about how it's been built and who's done the backdrops and that sort of thing. So it's been a good show. About how many modules did you all set up this time? There are 10 set up right now. 10 modules. There are eight in a loop, and we have a branch line that has two tables in it. I'm really impressed with the lighting on the layout. The track light heads give good color to everything. These are daylight lamps that we used, the lights we've had for quite a few years. They were off our original layout and modified them a little bit, but they work well. How about those Blackstone models? Oh, they do fine. They really run well, and what's nice is they actually run right out of the box. There aren't too many models that do that. Well, thank you for sharing this beautiful layout with us on what's neat and setting it up for the RPM Meet. Are you all going to be here next year? We're talking about it. We'll also be at the National Narrow Gauge Convention next year in Denver. Oh, and you know what? In four years, it's right around the corner. That's going to be here in St. Louis, isn't it? Yes, it will be. That'll be a good year. All right. Well, thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Look who I found here. I got John Lee with the Badger guys, and it looks like you all are doing some painting here. Yeah, we are. We're demoing our 155 Anthem airbrush and our Model Flex paint today, Ken. It sounds like a brand new airbrush that we need to test on the show, but it was really exciting watching all the people. I saw so many people painting and having a good time. Well, thanks. We're all having a good time here, and we're showing everybody how Model Flex paint works and how good product it is to use. Cool. Well, thanks a lot, John. Thanks, Ken. We look forward to seeing you again. I'm here with Chris Palomeras from Athern, and they've set up a booth here at the Prototype Modelers show. Chris, tell us why are you at this show? What is it that brings you to the Prototype Modelers meet? Why does Athern set up here? Absolutely. We're here to support our Genesis customer, our Genesis customer is the higher level customer that sees the detail and the prototype accuracy down to the row number. That's how sensitive the Genesis customer is, and we want to be here to support that. And as a company, we also engage with very informed individuals who have just researched these things. They have all the prototype information that we're looking for, and they submit it to us. We get to talk one-on-one with each other, point out certain things, and then just start moving forward on certain projects based upon the information we collect here. It's really important, and it really makes things go quicker. Great. Well, it's a nice display, and I hope the clientele you're looking for is here at this show. Well, we've been getting a lot of interaction between people, asking about when new projects are coming, what's up, what's next, and we're always happy to interact with everybody and say hi. Cool. Thanks a lot, Chris. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, Ken. Now, you'll remember Mike Skibby from last year. He was with us with the Midwest module track layout here at EndScale, and they've brought the layout again to the prototype modelers show this year, and they've got some new modules. And Mike and Matt are going to tell us about the new modules. Is that right? Yeah. So we're set up here about a 20-foot by a 65-foot layout this year. All our guys enjoyed coming out to St. Louis last year, so we made it back to the show this year. We do have a couple new modules in line. The first one here is Powerton, and Matt's going to talk about that a little bit and show you around. No, this is great. I like the walk-in design, the way we can walk in the middle of it. This is really cool the way you got it set up this year, Mike. Thanks. Now, you all remember Matt from Fox Valley Models, but he's really involved in this module track group, and he's going to tell us about their new module that they brought to St. Louis this year. Well, if you followed the layout all, you know, it's based on prototype scenes of the Milwaukee Road. And as guys build new modules, we kind of follow the prototype as close as we can. The newest one here is called Powerton. Powerton is a location coming out of downtown Milwaukee, and it was at the base of Lake Hill. So heading south on a train to start the ascent of Lake. What's neat about Powerton is there's the interchange with the Milwaukee Electric Railway Light Company, where they exchange coal hoppers off to Milwaukee, pull them off here. This is the electric line itself, but these light cars will go down to the lakefront to the power plant, and these will come back. And it was a sole purpose for Powerton. So this is just the latest module. There's some more under development. We may see some more down the road. Now, we love looking at this layout, the details, and the way the scenery and the modules blend together. It's just a winner every time you set it up. That was the end of the call. Thanks a lot for bringing that to St. Louis again this year. Absolutely. Any time. Happy to be here. Okay. I'm here with Jeff Adam from Motrack Models, and he's here, too, at the prototype modelers. Meet a lot of manufacturers at this show. Jeff, tell us about the show for you. This is a great opportunity to get my name out here in the Midwest. I'm out here to represent all my laser-cut kits, freight car loads, all kinds of stuff. And I've heard something about best models. I actually purchased Best Train's structure lines. Okay. It's 125 kits, and I will be converting them into N, H, O, S, and O scale. That's a lot of work. I've heard Scotty Mason talk about that product line a lot. And Motrack Models, too. I've heard him mention your company a lot. And it's finally great to be able to meet you here in St. Louis. Same here. So we wish you the best at the show. Are things going good sales-wise? Yes. This is a fabulous show. I've been here. This is my fourth year doing this show. Super. Well, Jeff, we're glad to see you. Thank you very much. Thank you again. One of the things that surprised me is this freight car load. So I really call them Mr. Freight Cars. And, John, I did that one freight car load with the combines. But with you, I got the ride-and-drive a real combine. Thank you for that experience. Tell us about your freight cars and your company, John. And I'll just straighten it out. It's a thrill to drive a combine when you don't have to. When you have to do it day after day, it's not that much fun. That was more fun than a boat. Our freight cars are made by my wife and I. We're just two old folks out in the country trying to survive. We love what we do seriously. Been doing this forever. And they're all handmade. We come up with the ideas, have it made, do it. Everything's made here. I don't just love what we've had for years. No, they're very impressive. What's the price point on models like this? The highest we have currently is $129 with the scale trains on the flat car. And these come all pre-built and you can order them from your website. And where would that be? moondograilcars.com These are really nice models. Thanks for showing them at the RPM Meet. How's the show working out for you? Do you like the show? Fantastic. Good. All right, well that's John O'Donnell. Moondog Railcars. I don't care about me. We're promoting this. There you go. John O'Donnell. Moondog Railcars. I'm standing here with Andy Harmon. I met you in Long Beach, California back in 1996. I think it was. You had the internet going on before the internet was the internet. I think you were the very first person with a blog or a website about trains that kept us up to date along with that diesel list. I know you were helping with that a little bit. I don't know if it was the first freight car. The freight car list? The freight car was the first and at that time there was a consensus. It's like, well, I don't think there's to be that much interest in diesel. So I started a diesel list and got 350 people signed up for it. That was 20 years ago, wasn't it? That was 1998. So it's been a little bit. What have you got today? I see one of your scratch-built cars. This is a New York Central observation car for the last edition of the heavyweight version of the 20th Century Limited. It's a car that's been never done anything but brass. Based on Branchline's Pullman kit, which I'm quite familiar with and very fond of. So I chose it as my starting point. I was very generously provided with some plans for this, which made the whole process much easier, but it was still a lot of work. Sides are sliced and diced many, many times, including the high windows. By the time I did the final two pairs of windows, I actually knew what I was doing. So they actually look pretty good. The others don't look quite so hot. It's got a free-state LED lighting system in it. The interior is all right up against the walls. I removed any endoskeletal material there. It has laser-cut window glass. The roof is kit-bashed from Walther's wide-deck roofs and a whole lot of styrene and superglue. I'm currently waiting on Tom Madden to get me a resin version of this roof that's more correct, which will replace this one, which is why this is all just tipped up in here. How much time have you got on this model, Eddie? Probably 80 to 100 hours. It really took me about a year and a half to build it, but I had interruptions along the way and I started working on it again back in the fall and tried to have it done. I was actually doing this roof work in hotels in Florida to get it ready for the... I had a clinic on this car at Cocoa Beach back in January. So this also uses my little power pole idea to pass power up so that I don't have wires running through the floor of the car. I actually have a pole of bronze soldered to the truck pickups. Okay, that makes sense. There's wires up in the air. And that way, the wires, you can't really see it with the roof on. That's a good trick. The car has a constant capacitor lighting system. So even if the pickup current is intermittent, the lights stay on. In fact, you take the car off the track, the lights will stay on for about a minute and you take it off the track, which is kind of cool. And all these cars have the same lighting in them, but this one was the one that was really a whole lot of work to build. And I've got about six to eight more cars to build to complete this train. It's the 1935 to 1938 heavyweight 20th century. Everybody's familiar with the streamlined century, the Dreyfus Hudson. This is what it looked like right before that. The very last version of it that was heavyweight Pullmans. No, it's really nice. He's brought a table full of models. And the show's been good. He had a lot of comments, a lot of people. A lot of people. I got a very mixed, as usual, I have multiple decade disorder. So my modeling focus is somebody walking up and looking here would have trouble figuring out just exactly what it is I model. And I could say I modeled the 20th century, not just the train, the century. Correct. But I have this passenger train fetish, but my actual modeling era is 1970s and NW. And that's what I've tried to concentrate on. But passenger car bug is independent of all that. And I've modeled a lot of particularly New York Central stuff. I like a challenge. Now, Andy, your work is amazing. And listen, I want to thank you very much for sharing it with the What's Neat viewers. So have a safe trip home. And it's great to see you, buddy. All right, good to see you. I'm standing here with Keith from Plano Model Company. And I got to tell you what, I used to sit in the real estate company 20 years ago and talk to Keith about the different projects you were working on. So we could include a lot of your detail on the Midwest Valley modelers layout back then, which was a super detailed layout. How is the show going for you, Keith? Tell us about your new products and a little bit about what's going on. Well, the show goes great for me every year. I always enjoy this show. It's a great show. There's a lot of people that appreciate using my product. I get to meet them. So I do enjoy coming to the show every year. This year, the only real new product I had would be a 60-foot boxcar walkway. That was about the only thing I was able to get out this year. But there's several new projects in the works. Actually, one of them is the MP Covered Hopper conversion kit for the Atlas Slendicle Hopper. I'm working on that and hope to have that available for next year's show. Now, this is about, what is it, the seventh or eighth show I've seen you set up at here? Actually, fifth. Fifth show. Fifth show. And you know he wouldn't be coming here every time unless it worked and paid for itself. So this is a demographic. The customer that you want to reach at this show is kind of the way I look at it. So, yeah, I enjoy... The show does work out for me and it's the only show I do every year, but it's a great show. Well, thanks for coming to St. Louis. Keith, it's good to see you again. You too. Thank you. All right. I'm standing here with Nick from Moloco. I would say 10 different variations of free cars. Nick, can you tell us a little bit about your company to the folks that are really unfamiliar? It's a small niche company that makes them pretty neat stuff. Introduce yourself to the what's neat folks. Thanks, Ken. Yeah, we've been in business since 1996. So we've been in around for 20 years. We started off in detail parts and now we've progressed to ready to run for the last six years. We've got 10 paint schemes available at the moment under four different car body styles. So we've got some Santa Fe red cars. The Topeka built Ripside RBLs. And then we progressed through General American of three different other styles. Different plug doors, either they're centered or they're offset. Okay. And is there a website where folks can go to to find all these beautiful models that you're talking about? Yeah, it's www.molocotrains.com. And tell us, I want to know the name of the company and how you arrived at the name of the company. Okay, so my name's Nick Molo and that's my last name. So it's Molo and then Co Company. Okay, that's cool. Well, Nick, you've been here. I've seen you at the show about eight years now. You've been at this show. That's right. That's done very well for you. Yes, it's very well. And I've been here when it was pretty small and helped to build it up. No, we appreciate that. Well, thanks for being on What's Neat. Okay, thanks, Ken. Cheers. I got Chris Palameras here and you know the one thing that I really enjoy. He's not just an account, but he's a farmer. He's a modeler like the rest of us. And that's the one thing I can appreciate. And Chris got super excited about something here at the show. And I got to let you, I'm going to give the microphone to Chris and let him just tell you what he found. Well, what's going on here is the modular signal system. And pretty much what it is, it's plug and play signals for a modular layout, it's self-configuring. So it could just literally plug into each cell, each other, as far as the boards are concerned, the boards drive the signals. There's also intermediate boards that kind of let you, let the boards on the end, the signals know what's going on in between them. And the beauty of this is, being modular, you become really painfully aware of the lack of products out there that are kind of for a distributed signaling system. Most of the time they come and show up like, this thing can drive 30 signals. Well, it doesn't really lend itself well for a modular layout where you need to have one board drive a pair of signals. Nothing like that really existed out there. And nothing that was simple to set up. And that's what we really needed in the modular environment. You don't want to spend a whole lot of time fighting with electronics, getting the signals work. And that's the beauty of this. This is something that Greg Furman and I initially worked on together back in early 2000s. And we always hoped that there would be a company that would take this to the next level and offer an intense solution. And I walked into the RPM meet, had no idea about Iowa scale, and I'm looking at it. I'm like, is this an MSS space? And Nathan responds, well, yes it is. So I was floored. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is something that I worked with Greg Furman to develop. So here it is. Iowa scaled engineering. Is this something simple I can do? Yes, this is even something that you can do, Ken. And that's reassuring. This is the one thing that truly intimidates me is signaling systems on a layout. You don't see crossing gates on my layout. I'm afraid of it. There are things I just don't do. There's orange cables on there, Ken. What you do is you plug each board into those orange cables, and then you wire in the signals to the board, and you're going. And it works. And it works. Okay, well that's really cool. And it doesn't matter which way you have the board positioned, it figures it out. So Iowa Scaled is there a website we can go to to check this out? Yes, there is. What is our website? Iowa Scaled. I-A-Scaled.com. I-A-Scaled.com. All right. So don't forget to put that CG on. That's pretty neat, guys. This is neat. Absolutely neat. At least for me. And others out there that like signal. I don't know. Look at this. I ran into Bob Vickley here in San Luis. Bob Vickley used to work with Bob Schleicher from Real Model Journal. I remember those days. I remember those days. What do you do in these days, Bob? Mainline laser, a new company. Mainline laser, a new company. What are you making? What are you making? What are you making? Laser structures. And we're distributing projects for products for Betham car works. We're going to go over to your table. We're going to go over to your table and come talk to you in a few minutes. You got it. We'll see you over there. Take care. So I did finally make it over to Bob Vickley's area here. And Bob's got Mainline Laser, a new laser company with a new product coming out here, Southampton Station. Bob, tell us a little bit about this new adventure you're doing. Well, it was an outgrowth of a company I used to work with. And a bunch of guys said we need another laser company. Bob, would you do it? You know about it. You need another laser company. Yeah. So we started in John Green's over here on the board. And he's one of the instigators along with Bill Schneider of Repito. They were all involved with Branchline at one time. I'm really happy to see you getting back into the industry here with the new line of kits, Mainline Laser, Bob Vickley. And you got a website here, www.mainlinelaser.com. We got laser and there's two more R's, Railroad. There are some R's in there. Mainlinelaser.com. You can see it right here on the bottom of the screen. And we wish you the best of luck, Bob, because God knows you've been in the industry a long time and you're a great person. We all love Bob Vickley. Look at it, look at it. It is a kiss of death. All right, guys, thanks. Great to see you, man. One of my most favorite people of the show manufacturer is David Lambock from Tangent. Dave, how's the show working out for you and tell us what you got this year new? Well, thanks for letting me talk to you guys, Ken. Appreciate it. Well, this year we have a couple new cars to show. Of course, Tangent Scale Models does new freight cars all the time. This is our fourth all-new car in the past 12 months. So the past year we've done four all-new cars, and that new car is this one here. It's the 40-foot Pullman Standard High-Q Boxcar. We debuted this at the NMRA Train Show a month ago in Indianapolis, and we have these for sale now in four different road paint schemes, sorry. And we also want to talk a little about some of our other cars we have here. We have our new air slide-covered hoppers. These were released for the first time last November, and we released these in eight different paint schemes back in November, and since then we've released about a total of 20. And here's one of them. We have four different B&SF buffer cars complete with the anti-skid plates on top, anti-skid paint on top, and with all the paint outs and the conspicuity stripes and all the things you might find normal on those. We've also done one as a B&SF paint out as well, where it's a Santa Fe car with a paint out. So this is ready to weather right now for the guys that like to weather. That's hot. That is kind of cool. And then we've got those in all kinds of schemes. Going back to the 60s, for example, Northern Pacific is one of the schemes that we have. This goes back to 1968. And then we also have from a bunch of 70s cars like Southern and Burlington Northern. That's nice. And then finally, we have a few other colorful ones that are kind of cool. This one kind of harks back to my childhood. I really liked the Brock's Candy corn. It was one of my favorite things. I thought we should have that in model form, so I did that. And then a few other ones we have is this activated carbon car. It's kind of like a carbon black, but it's not exactly carbon black, but it looks like a carbon black car. A lot of people are kind of grabbing these right now on the internet. I saw a fellow yesterday at your table saying, hey Ken, I'm getting my 12 tangent cars today. Yeah, we've had a lot of bulk sales. Of course, we give discounts for buying in sixes and twelves when you buy direct with tangent. So that's one of the things that we offer our customers. That's pretty nice. Since I last saw you, though, we've released quite a few other new cars. We released this Pennsylvania Railroad corrugated side gondola. The corrugations are both inside the car and outside the car, which is really a neat thing for weathering, especially for people that like to weather cars. In September, we're going to have more of these in Penn Central and in Conrail. And we also make coils that go with them. There's a coil rack inside of the Conrail car. So you can actually buy the coils and put them inside the coil rack and have a coil train, which is pretty neat. It goes with other manufacturers' cars, too, that are in coil service. That's a really nice thing for prototype modelers, especially of Conrail, which those cars went everywhere hauling steel. Sure. And then we've done some other covered hoppers. Recently, our 70s covered hopper line has a bunch of new paint schemes on it. And we just continue to pump out new cars. How many cars have you got now? How many total models? Tangent now has 15 tools. So we have 15 cars that are on the market. That's really great. I remember the last time we talked, was it like seven or something, did you say? Maybe. It's been a couple of years. That's great. David Leibach just keeps on making those really cool, unique models that we all like to have. Well, yeah. I'd like to close and just say, I really appreciate the opportunity to present to your viewers. And I want to thank the people out there for supporting Tangent. This is a family-owned and operated business. We're not a corporation. We are family-owned and operated. We make this stuff. It's a labor of love for all of us. It's me and a bunch of other modelers that are doing this. So we really wanted to let everybody know we appreciate the business and the enthusiasm. And we try to bring that enthusiasm to everybody that we work with. So thanks so much for the business. You're awesome, man. Thank you very much. And that's why he's one of my favorites. Thank you very much. Thanks, Ken. Appreciate it. I'm standing with the gentlemen once again that are responsible for the railroad prototype modelers meet here in Collinsville in St. Louis. And I've got Lonnie and Daniel and Dave here this year. Guys, tell us this year how the show did. Go ahead. The show did wonderful. We have 13,000 square feet of floor space here. We have 40 vendors here. And it's our largest show yet. And we are the largest show in the United States RPM-wise this year. We had a great turnout with models this year. We had numerous scales, over 1,800 models, everything from locomotives to cars to buildings. A great turnout. And we had about 500 attendees, largest record we know of, and we had one famous person. What is it with the paparazzi? My God. Okay, so it sounds like we had a great show this year and you've got the dates for next year. Okay. June 23rd and 24th, 2017. Okay, June. Mark your calendars. We're a little earlier next year. Okay, so mark your calendars now. We'll see you next year. Okay, good deal. Well, thank you very much, guys. And with that, my work was over covering the show. And each night after the show, I had friends and guests over in my studio out in the bluff. The trains on the layout ran smooth with no problems. With cooler temperatures outside, the weather was just perfect for a bonfire. Inside, Joe Steinman very skillfully flew a drone around the layout, giving us yet another cool way to view the model railroad from the vantage point of a simple housefly. And with that, you've seen another successful RPM meet presented in this October's What's Neat video. I hope you can attend next year's Markdown the show dates on the calendar June 23rd and June 24th of 2017 in Collinsville, Illinois. And that is a suburb of Metro St. Louis. So I hope you've enjoyed this video and I hope to see you next year at the show. And that's What's Neat for October, 2016.