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Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:25:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org.niltc, Tim Courtney wrote:
Well, we discourage "guest trains" from the audience, simply because we had a
rather unique experience with a kid whose trains we offered to run. BUT - if
you're an established member of an established train club, I don't see how
running your trains would be a problem. So, please, bring them out!

You've had problems with guest trains in the past?  Do tell!  The only problems
the GMLTC has had recently is when a kid brought his Hogwart's Express.  We're
so used to running our 8-wide trains - they require almost full throttle - we
ran his right off the table...  OOPS!!  He was pretty cool about it though, and
laughed while I rebuilt it.

And yea, I'm seriously considering a trip down there.  Gotta run the
'Challenger' sometime soon...  :-)

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
 
(...) Ohh, I wish that was our problem :-) There's a mentally handicapped child who is at one of our shows every year. He really loves the trains, but is quite loud and disruptive - and his parents have difficult time controlling him. One of our (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)

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  Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
 
(...) Well, we discourage "guest trains" from the audience, simply because we had a rather unique experience with a kid whose trains we offered to run. BUT - if you're an established member of an established train club, I don't see how running your (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)

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