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SCLTC’s annual winter show at the San Diego Model
Railroad Museum is now in its final two weeks!
This batch of layout pictures is posted
here.
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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Awesome display! When I think SCLTC, I think of great layouts like this!
Hey cool, I didn't know (you had or there were) two of those white cable span
bridges. Amazing.
Happy New Year BTW.
Thanks for putting these pictures up.
e
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Eric Sophie wrote:
> Awesome display! When I think SCLTC, I think of great layouts like this!
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> Hey cool, I didn't know (you had or there were) two of those white cable span
> bridges. Amazing.
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Eric-
Thanks for the comments.
The cable-stayed bridge was built as two 60-inch spans that we can separate if
desired. For this display, we modified them so that their decks can tilt
relative to their towers. This allows each bridge to provide 8 bricks of
elevation change over 192 studs of length.
In fact, for this cloverleaf over-and-under layout, all the elevation changes
(20 bricks up, 20 bricks down) are done on bridges. The advantage of using
bridges is that we don't terraform the space below them, which saves a ton of
work (and bricks).
Still, we needed more bridge for this layout so we built two 192-stud long
under-truss bridges. The under-truss bridges went together very quickly (except
for waiting on some parts) and are the strongest we have ever made: They take a
bowling ball in dead center with deflection of only about 1/8th inch!
-Ted
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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This batch of layout pictures is posted
here.
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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The layout looks great again this year, but man, that’s a convoluted track plan.
I heard rumor while I was there that the museum was interested in possibly
establishing a permanent home for a LEGO layout. Any progress in that area?
Aaron
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Aaron M. Sneary wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
The layout looks great again this year, but man, that’s a convoluted track
plan.
I heard rumor while I was there that the museum was interested in possibly
establishing a permanent home for a LEGO layout. Any progress in that area?
Aaron
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Aaron-
Thanks for the compliment.
The track arrangement, compared to others we have done, is really very
straightforward and, in fact, (ignoring sidings) very symmetrical. After doing
our largest show ever at the Orange County Fair for 3 straight weeks and almost
300 show hours, we were rather worn out (and buried in dirt, since the tents
were open on two sides for those 300 hours) and didn’t get cracking on the
SDMRRM design until almost the last minute. The under and over cloverleaf with a
ton of bridges at least gave us something we had never done before and with the
addition of ballasted track and animated carnival made some nice firsts for us
at the museum. We held out the city structures in anticipation of a simultaneous
even that luckily didn’t come off so that we were able to take it to LLCA for a
mini show in early November.
I’ve never heard a rumor about a permanent LEGO exhibit at SDMRRM. For one
thing, there’s no place to put one! The room we use is a multipurpose display
room for special occasions, traveling exhibits like ours, and rentals. We have
discussed building a small permanent exhibit in an enclosed case that could be
placed in the entry way or some other small spot, but the basic problem is “no
room at the inn”. I did hear mention of some expansion into adjoining buildings,
but nothing in the context of a creating home for a LEGO exhibit.
We are very popular at the museum (at least with the visiting public and the
people who count gate receipts) and will probably draw our usual total of
30,000+ visitors this season. On Thursday last week, the museum enjoyed its
highest grossing single day paid attendance ever in 25+ years of operation.
-Ted
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Ted Michon wrote:
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Aaron M. Sneary wrote:
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I heard rumor while I was there that the museum was interested in possibly
establishing a permanent home for a LEGO layout. Any progress in that area?
Aaron
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I’ve never heard a rumor about a permanent LEGO exhibit at SDMRRM. For one
thing, there’s no place to put one! The room we use is a multipurpose display
room for special occasions, traveling exhibits like ours, and rentals. We
have discussed building a small permanent exhibit in an enclosed case that
could be placed in the entry way or some other small spot, but the basic
problem is “no room at the inn”. I did hear mention of some expansion into
adjoining buildings, but nothing in the context of a creating home for a LEGO
exhibit.
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Not so much a rumor, but whishful thinking on the part of some museum members.
But a display case at the museum would be great. We could even advertise when
the large display will be.
Mat
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