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In lugnet.loc.us.ks, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.loc.us.ks, John Gerlach writes:
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> <snip>
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> Yes indeed the fine folks in trains.org are always happy to help!
True, and from all the posts I've read and websites I have seen, they are a
friendly, sharing and creative group as well. Thanks for your support!
> (so does KC Mo or KC K have the better BBQ goods? I tend to say K...
> Overland Park has some fine restaurants too!)
There is great BBQ on both sides of the state line. Jack's Stack (my
favorite) has a site in both states, Gates BBQ is in MO, while Haywards and
KC Masterpiece are in Overland Park, KS. Everyone has their favorite, but
it's all good.
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> The Kansas City Union Station (just down the street from Hallmark) would
> make a fine model, selectively compressed. That and the stockyards and
> industrial stuff along the river.
Funny you should mention Union Station. This was my project that I couldn't
get finished in time for the ISCC. Andreas Stabno and I mentioned how cool
it would be to build Union Station way back in Dec. 1999 at our last Lego
gathering. My wife and I actually have a paver brick in the sidewalk in
front of the building with our names on it as part of our financial support
for the restoration of Union Station.
I think I've found solutions for many of the Lego architectural challenges
for this very beautiful station, as well as using selective compression. My
model currently has a footprint of 120 x 64 studs, and that does not include
the North Waiting Hall. The main section is roughly 50% complete.
My one remaining challenge is to figure out how I am going to get trains to
actually go under the North Hall, as in real life - or at least in real
life before they restored it into a Science Museum. It would take a lot of
bricks (and $$ - now that they don't sell blue tubs) to elevate the entire
structure by 12-13 bricks height and then figure out how to slope it down so
it doesn't look like it's sitting on a box. Then I figure, if I'm going to
go through all that effort, I might as well make a tunnel under it with
curved tracks, and put it in a corner of a display, since the track corners
are relatively space inefficient and eat up a lot of display space. Hmmmm....
> ++Lar (who was in KC for a few months on a project, lo these many years ago,
> and left too much money at Sam's Town, thank you very much.)
Thanks for supporting our local economy, even if it was un-intentional!! :-)
It's an interesting story how these casinos ever got into KC - they were
sold to the general public as riverboats cruising down the Missouri River,
with the money all going to "education"....
Mark Chan
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