Driving to Indianapolis...

Hi, Jason back again. 

The second leg of my trip began Sunday night at 10 pm after break down of our display at World’s Greatest Hobby in Cleveland. I hit the road again to drive the show material to Indianapolis, where our next Showcase is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18th.

After, a much-needed Red Bull and pizza, I did the 5 hour drive without stopping, arriving at the hotel around 3 AM.  I secured the engines and materials for Wednesday’s show, and headed to my hotel to catch some shut eye before my flight back to New York. 

I woke up at about 5:45 am and quickly got my things together for my 7:30 am flight. I checked out and plugged in my Tom-Tom GPS (which has never failed me) to take me to the airport. Now here’s the funny part: I get to the airport to discover that the entire airport has moved, literally. I now realize why the woman at the front desk gave me a paper with the directions to an airport that my GPS was unaware of. I later learned that about 6 months ago the entire airport moved 5 miles away.

Good thing I generally check in online for my flights, I made it just in time and was the last passenger to board and made it safely back to New York.  I hope to rejoin the Showcases on the road sometime soon.

Stay tuned!

Driving to Cleveland...

Hi, my name is Jason Jeffers, I work in the Lionel New York Office. Some of you may know me from working many of the trade shows.

My Product Showcase experience started out with a road trip. I had the privilege of driving our VISION Line demo and samples to the first road show in Cleveland. I hit the road at about 11 PM on Thursday night; for my 8 hour drive. Somewhere along the way (can’t remember where) I stopped to take a nap for about an hour.

When I arrived at 8 am, I went directly to the International Exposition Center. The World’s Greatest Hobby show was taking place this weekend in Cleveland as well, and I was on hand to begin set up.

At about 4 PM I headed to Cleveland Hobby with Joe Fea and my precious cargo. The Lionel team had a good presence there including: myself, Tom Nuzzo, Mike Reagan, Mike Braga, Rich Grutzmacher and Joe Fea.

There were approximately 60 people in attendance and I feel the show went smoothly and was well received (Joe will have more details on this later). I must also say a special thanks to Mike Pachasa and his staff at Cleveland Hobby who hosted our first show and were so helpful in getting things going.