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The seventh annual Southern California LEGO Train Club (SCLTC) winter show at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum
(SDMRRM) in Balboa Park in San Diego is now entering its
final weeks.
This year’s show features a city with skyscrapers, town, and a pirate cove with
a fleet of class LEGO pirate vessels. The large rail yard features a number of
trains that have appeared in RAILBRICKS. The center
piece of the layout is the club’s largest bridge ever, a 15 foot (4.6 m), 576
stud long suspension bridge with twin decks and 4 tracks. The LEGO “cables” (2x2
black cylinders) conceal actual steel cable rated to 230 pounds held under
tension by a ratcheting hold-down stretched under the tables. With 4 full trains
centered on the bridge the center sags less than 0.25 inch.
The show opened on Tuesday November 25 and will run through Saturday January 17.
The museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 to 16:00 and Saturdays and
Sundays from 11:00 to 17:00. Admission is free for children under 15 and $6.00
for adults.
The San Diego Model Railroad museum is the premier model railroad museum in the
country and features a number of large layouts in various gauges. It is located
in the Casa de Balboa adjacent to the Fleet Space Theatre and the world famous
San Diego Zoo.
Pictures are posted. For an interactive 3D view of the layout, check out the
Microsoft Photosynth rendition and for a first person engineer’s eye view from
the cab, check out the YouTube video.
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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| (...) --snip-- (...) No pictures of the extremely clever Cobalt plaza? There's a couple of us (URL) trying to disect> how you did parts of it. Great layout. Yours has always been one of my favourites. Tim (15 years ago, 6-Jan-09, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| (...) Ted: The layout looks amazing...as always. I really love the work on Cobalt Plaza as others have mentioned. This is really, really top notch stuff. Every time you guys do a show, you always have amazing new stuff. I could spend hours just (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jan-09, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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