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The annual Train and LEGO show is happening at the Dartmouth Sportsplex this
weekend. The Sportsplex is on Wyse Road in Dartmouth, near the Angus L.
MacDonald Bridge and the bus loop.
Saturday Nov 22 9 am until 4:30 pm.
Sunday Nov 23 10 am until 3 pm.
Admission (per day):
Adults $5
Kids 5-12 $2
Under 5 Free
Families (2 adults and 2 children) $10
flyer: http://www.halifaxmodeltrains.ca/AdFlyer2014v1.pdf
I'll be there with a ~20' x 4' LEGO train layout, featuring the mostly complete
new Halifax public library main branch. I have a few bits on order that will
arrive by next week, plus I need to do some more stuff on the interior. As it
doesn't open to the public until mid December, it should be still under
construction :). My layout is 50% larger than I have tried to do on my own
before.
I believe NovaLUG will also be there, with a LEGO display.
Gail Meagher
Halifax
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In lugnet.loc.ca.ns, Gail Meagher wrote:
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The annual Train and LEGO show is happening at the Dartmouth Sportsplex this
weekend. The Sportsplex is on Wyse Road in Dartmouth, near the Angus L.
MacDonald Bridge and the bus loop.
Saturday Nov 22 9 am until 4:30 pm.
Sunday Nov 23 10 am until 3 pm.
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I believe a good time was had by all.
I’ve posted pictures of my layout, and I took a few pictures of the
NovaLUG display in the
other room.
I’d like to thank Janey profusely for the effort she put into including a few
Maritimers in the Ontario LUGBulk buy. It allowed me to create the
RCMP Musical Ride,
old fashioned street
lamps and way more trees, and the new
Halifax central
library.
I was speaking to a older gentleman, at the show with his young grandson, who
told me that when he was younger he was in the Musical Ride for three years.
His horse was named Warren. He asked me if I knew why the pennants were red and
white. I guessed incorrectly that that had to do with Canada’s colours. He
explained that back when lances were used by horse mounted soldiers, the lances
would become slippery from the blood on them. Cloth was wrapped around the
lance just above where the rider gripped it, to stop the blood flowing down that
far. The cloth would be stained red at the top from the blood, but remain white
below. Hence the colours of the pennants.
Gail Meagher
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