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Re: LTC Practices and Specs
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lugnet.trains.org
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:55:29 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Thomas Garrison wrote:
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So, I would urge LTCs and their Webmasters to consider documenting how the
clubs work, and what standards they employ. This information would be
useful for prospective members, existing members, people who want to run
guest trains, and people starting LTCs who want to know what works and
what doesn’t. This might even be good data for ILTCO to link to
specifically, so people can compare and constrast how different clubs do
things.
Some stuff that I think about when contemplating LTCs:
- Organization: club structure; officers; meetings; member duties and
- Operation: layout structure as (a) table modularity, (b) baseplate
- Table Specs
- Operating Specs: track clearances, maxiumum car size, maximum car
- Aesthetic Specs: minimum car size, automobile size, road design,
1 I assume everyone is familiar with these three types of layout
organization?
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Well, fyi, the GMLTC doesn’t really follow any of these types of layout
organization. We would be something more like “layout modularity”, since our
layout is designed so that structure, themes, look & feel - all flow from one
module onto the next. It would be extremely difficult to fit someone else’s
module into our layout display.
But then again, we’re freaks.
As for “Guest Trains”, bring ‘em!! We *love* guest trains, and will happily
pull one of our trains off the track to run yours. If it’s too large, well,
Sorry! We still want to see it, even if it won’t run on the layout. And since
we’re an 8-wide club who build some pretty big things -
big things pretty - You’d have to build something rather huge for it to be too
big to run on our layout. (John Neal’s 14-wide trains, for example - they won’t
fit... *grin*)
JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) I usually think of the GMLTC as using a form of baseplate modularity---but without the modules (since GMLTC 'modules' are artefacts of building and transportation issues, rather than representing contributions by distinct members). (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | LTC Practices and Specs
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| (...) Several months ago, I poked around several LTC Websites looking for information on how the clubs operate, both as organizations and as layout developers. What I found was a dearth of data. Some Websites did have some interesting and (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains.org)
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