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These are random photos of the National Association Of S Gaugers National Conventions I have attended. They are generally my yearly vacations, and are like a family reunion as I don’t get to see most of the attendees during the rest of the year. I have been from New Jersey to California and back seeing great tours, layouts and of course great people. Join us! You will go to your first convention as a new NASG member and leave as a NASG Family Member!

I have a lot more photos for the years not shown here but I have to scan them which is very time consuming

I had an idea in 1990 that if there was a national convention it would be great exposure of S Scale in my area which would benefit and hopefully grow the membership of the then new South Jersey S Scalers Club I founded with Roy Hoffman in 1989. It was decided that a joint NASG/NMRA/N-Trak convention would be a good place to promote S Scale to a large Northeastern audience. My friend Charlie Leonard and I were a part of the management committee and attended meetings for almost 3 years before the event. When the event arrived we owned Valley Forge and every hotel room for a 20 mile radius! The days that the train show was opened to the public shattered all previous records. The number of tour buses needed to run the tours was unbelievable. That went horrifically wrong after about 2 days. People were left stranded for hours on layout tours because the buses were not following directions. I was one of them left for dead for hours on someone’s lawn because the layout owner whose house we just toured left to go to the convention. The bus broker was put out of business by the NMRA.

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Here is a list of past & future NASG conventions

Year	City	Type
2024	Harrisburg Pa.	Stand-alone
2023	Harrisburg Pa.	Stand-alone
2022	Buffalo NY	Stand-alone
2021	Cancelled due to Covid
2020	Cancelled due to Covid
2019	Cincinnati Ohio	Stand-alone
2018	Boxborough, Massachusetts	Stand-alone
2017	Timonium Maryland	Stand-alone
2016	Novi Michigan	Stand-alone
2015	Kansas City Missouri	Stand-alone
2014	Oconomowoc (Milwaukee), WI	Stand-alone
2013	Scranton, PA	Stand-alone
2012	Chattanooga TN	Stand-alone
2011	Sacramento CA	Joint-NMRA National
2010	Duluth MN	Stand-alone
2009	St. Louis, MO	Stand-alone
2008	Lowell, MA	Stand-alone
2007	Baltimore, MD	Stand-alone
2006	Pontiac, MI	Stand-alone
2005	Altoona, PA	Stand-alone
2004	Arlington Heights (Chicago), IL	Stand-alone
2003	Oconomowoc (Milwaukee), WI	Stand-alone
2002	Cleveland, OH	Stand-alone
2001	Scranton, PA	Stand-alone
2000	San Jose, CA	Joint-NMRA National
1999	St. Paul, MN	SBR (Simultaneous) with NMRA National
1998	Worcester, MA	Stand-alone
1997	Westminster (Denver, CO)	Stand-alone
1996	Dearborn (Detroit), MI	Stand-alone
1995	Altoona, PA	Stand-alone
1994	Vancouver, WA (Portland, OR)	SBR( Tandem) with NMRA National
1993	Valley Forge, PA	Joint-NMRA National
1992	Cleveland, OH	Stand-alone
1991	Syracuse, NY	Stand-alone
1990	Pittsburgh, PA	Joint-NMRA National
1989	Kansas City, MO	Stand-alone
1988	New Brunswick, NJ	Stand-alone
1987	Oak Brook (Chicago), IL	Stand-alone
1986	Novi (Detroit), MI	Stand-alone
1985	Sacramento, CA	Stand-alone
1984	Buffalo, NY	Stand-alone
1983	Woburn (Boston), MA	Stand-alone
1982	Cleveland, OH	Stand-alone
1981	Syracuse, NY	Stand-alone
1980	Milwaukee, WI	Stand-alone
1979	Princeton, NJ	Joint-NMRA Regional
1978	Silver Spring, MD (Washington, DC)	Stand-alone
1977	San Jose, CA	Stand-alone
1976	Ottawa, ON Canada	Stand-alone
1975	Elk Grove Village (Chicago), IL	Stand-alone
1974	Worcester, MA	Stand-alone
1973	Willow Grove, PA	Stand-alone
1972	Kansas City, MO	Stand-alone
1971	Syracuse, NY	Stand-alone
1970	Hershey, PA	Stand-alone
1969	Alexandria, VA (Washington, DC)	Stand-alone
1968	Nashua, NH	Stand-alone
1967	Tarrytown, NY	Stand-alone
1966	Toronto, ON, Canada	Stand-alone
1965	Rochester, PA	Stand-alone
1964	Willow Grove, PA	Stand-alone
1963	East Greenbush (Troy), NY	Stand-alone
1962	Woburn (Boston), MA	Stand-alone
1961	New York, NY	Stand-alone