If you’re interested in being featured to thousands of virtual viewers at the show, please contact us at for more information. If you can’t make the 2022 show, be sure to tune in right here at Virtual Railfan so we can bring the show to you! We will have interviews, walk through tours, and booth visits from the biggest names in the railroad hobby industry. We can’t wait to get back to an in-person show for 2022, in fact we’ll be LIVE streaming that one too! We will have LIVE cams in the buildings giving those who can’t make it a virtual experience like none other. The show was a huge success, and we were very proud of the results. After a few months of careful planning we presented the show for the first time, virtually. We were approached by John Sacerdote who asked if we would like to host and present a virtual show that year, and of course we jumped at the opportunity.

This unfortunately also meant there would be no in person show for 2021. With over 10 million viewers a month, from over 200 countries Virtual Railfan continues to grow and add more cams to the network every year.Īt the end of 2020 the pandemic was in full swing, causing many events we love as railfans to be cancelled. Our YouTube channel has been viewed almost a half a BILLION times since it’s start in early 2017. Founded in 2010, Virtual Railfan quickly rose to become the leaders in live streaming trains. Virtual Railfan specializes in LIVE streaming train cams all over the world. The feed on the left is for the camera facing west and on. Twice, the Railroad Hobby Show has received the Walther’s Showmanship Award in recognition of our efforts to promote interest in railroads and model railroads in the United States. Live feed thanks to Virtual Railfan, Just Solutions and the Village of Fairport. Today, the annual Railroad Hobby Show occupies four buildings at the Eastern States Exposition, draws 25,000 people, and is one of the most respected railroad shows in the country. And, that was the start of the Railroad Hobby Show as we know it. The show ended up being a huge success – more than covering the costs. So the still fledgling group decided to take a risk (a $2500 risk) and move the swap meet to the New England Building at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA. In 1982, the university space the group normally used for the swap meet was not available because of building renovations. Over the next few years, the group moved to increasingly larger floor space, added railroad and model railroad vendors to the meet, and built a small modular model railroad for display. This group is for our fans to go live and show us the trains near you We ask that you only post LIVE feeds here. For more information, visit the early 1960s, the group started a railroad themed “bring & buy” swap meet on the university campus. Railroad Model Craftsman Editor Otto Vondrak will be at the virtual show on Sunday afternoon. Sacerdote said he is confident that the show will be back at the Eastern States Exposition in 2022 and that he is planning for a big celebration when it does return. A full schedule is expected to be finalized in the coming days and will be available online.

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The entire event will be free and broadcast on the Railroad Hobby Show’s website. Sacerdote said some of the manufacturers, including Scale Trains, are planning on announcing new products. There will also be layout tours, modeling clinics and presentations from various New England rail museums. Sacerdote will host the event in coordination with Virtual Railfan and attendees will see live and record videos from more than 80 different vendors, from Rapido Trains to White River Productions. To do that, Amherst will host a virtual show over two days this weekend, starting at 9 a.m. The West Springfield show features numerous large club layouts. “I really wanted to get these exhibitors some exposure,” Sacerdote said. However, he also knew he wanted to do something to bring some attention to the vendors, manufacturers, and museums that fill four buildings every January. Show director John Sacerdote said he was “devastated” when they decided late last year to cancel the physical event at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds. The West Springfield show is one of the highlights of the winter for modelers and railfans alike in the Northeast. The Amherst Railway Society’s Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Mass., one of the largest railroad events in North America that annually attracts more than 20,000 people over two days, is going online this weekend after being forced to cancel its physical event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Show Goes On: West Springfield Show Goes Virtual

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