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As you may've heard, WAMALUG displayed a layout at The Great American Train
Show held over the weekend in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was a *huge* success,
and we tied for Third place (out of seven or so). We had one of the largest
crowd draws, with some people hanging around for hours or revisting us a number
of times. Anyway, some of the major highlights of the show included:
~ Digital Command Control of the trains! This was fun, allowing us to
individually crash, er *control* the trains, even on the same loop!
~ Larger layout! It was 120"x160", but this time we had a 120"x200" layout!
~ Motorized Crane! Not only was it motorized, It like to do aerial
acrobatics! Like, falling over... ;)
~ Attack of the 50 foot Minifig!
~ Rich Schamus' Blue Streak and Citrus Express!
~ Long Metroliner!
~ People saying it was the best layout at the show!
~ The double wide Train Bridge!
~ A kid offering to buy my Castle! After he was told it wasn't for sale, I
decided to price it at $40,000. :)
~ The elevator in Rich's Tower plumeting to the bottom, eliminating the
annoying protesters on board... :)
Pictures available here:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=189> (Kevin's pics)
<http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~dan/lego/pics/GATS/index.html> (Dan's pics)
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/zigdon/Wamalug/GATS> (Dan's pics)
Have fun!
Jeff
Announcement God and Founding Member of Wamalug <http://www.wamalug.org>
http://members.xoom.com/aulddragon/
P.S. Our website is still down, we'll let you all know when it is back up...
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In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, Jeff Stembel writes:
> As you may've heard, WAMALUG displayed a layout at The Great American Train
> Show held over the weekend in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was a *huge*
success,
HEY Jeff,
CONGRATS, you all did a fantastic work! it is very inspiring to see the
interest that you guys had during this week end.
I was about to go but I had the choice to drive for 23 hours or a last
minute plane ticket for $2K :-(
So I stayed home waiting impatiently for the pics, that I enjoyed
very much. Next time I'll book a plane ticket ahead so that I can
participate ;-)
THANKS for the pics, Jean-Marc
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I have poored over the photos and watched all the movie clips. Just GREAT
work!!!
It's great to see more collaboration going on for LEGO train shows. All I can
say is thanks for posting your success and making me wish I could have seen the
display in person. I count myself twice lucky to have gone to two PNLTC
events. (I live in the middle of New Mexico.) The load of photos you post is
the next-best thing to being there. Excellent photos of quality designs.
Thank you!
later,
James Mathis
In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, Jeff Stembel writes:
> As you may've heard, WAMALUG displayed a layout at The Great American Train
> Show held over the weekend in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was a *huge* • success,
> and we tied for Third place (out of seven or so). We had one of the largest
> crowd draws, with some people hanging around for hours or revisting us a • number
> of times. Anyway, some of the major highlights of the show included:
>
> ~ Digital Command Control of the trains! This was fun, allowing us to
> individually crash, er *control* the trains, even on the same loop!
> ~ Larger layout! It was 120"x160", but this time we had a 120"x200" layout!
> ~ Motorized Crane! Not only was it motorized, It like to do aerial
> acrobatics! Like, falling over... ;)
> ~ Attack of the 50 foot Minifig!
> ~ Rich Schamus' Blue Streak and Citrus Express!
> ~ Long Metroliner!
> ~ People saying it was the best layout at the show!
> ~ The double wide Train Bridge!
> ~ A kid offering to buy my Castle! After he was told it wasn't for sale, I
> decided to price it at $40,000. :)
> ~ The elevator in Rich's Tower plumeting to the bottom, eliminating the
> annoying protesters on board... :)
>
> Pictures available here:
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=189> (Kevin's pics)
> <http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~dan/lego/pics/GATS/index.html> (Dan's pics)
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/zigdon/Wamalug/GATS> (Dan's pics)
>
> Have fun!
>
> Jeff
> Announcement God and Founding Member of Wamalug <http://www.wamalug.org>
> http://members.xoom.com/aulddragon/
>
> P.S. Our website is still down, we'll let you all know when it is bac
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