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Re: Trains Trains and Train Shows.
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:25:22 GMT
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I'd be happy to be involved however I can be. I do have a fair bit of track
and some trains too, so that might be useful *tongue in cheek*, and
designing layouts is always fun reagrdless of the situation.
The only hitch is that there's no gaurantee that I myself can physically be
there. There's a strong chance that I will be a mexican for about 12 months
(I'll find out in the next week what the status on that is) which means that
unless the show happens to be on a weekend when I may be back home, I wont
be able to attend.
That said however, I doubt much of my track or trains will make the trek
down south, so they will be there for you to use if/when required. I think
it might be a great opportunity to showcase a number of different creations.
But bear in mind that being a model train show, we will need it to be fairly
"trainy" and not a showcase of a Lego moon landing only (hmm background
scenery idea?).
We'd also need to consider things such as tables, backdrops (if any),
barriers to stop prying hands, and what about a kids loop and play area like
so many of our International North American LTC friends do. The INALTC's
have set really high benchmarks, and sure we can't match that YET, but this
could be the first step.
James, will you be taking care of Administrative details through the show
organisers?
Will they allow such a display?
How much money is involved to display? <is there a payment to display?>
How much space could we expect?
Are they able to supply anything to us?
To get the ball rolling in terms of the display - predominantly 9V or a mix
of 9/12V? Remember that 9V has some cool remote control functions.
Will we be considering setting up a goods yard?
Should we have one main station? or perhaps a few here and there?
Hope this helps in some way. I'm sure there'll be more discussions at future
meets.
Santosh
Note: I've posted only to Org.Au as this is an attempt at organisation or
organisation!
In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Martin Scragg writes:
> > > Since last weekend at MUGfest, we had a train layout going (pictures to
> > > come), and there was a bit of interest in trains, there may be a chance some
> > > of the MUGs could be interested.
> > I'd definitely be interested. I'm looking at building some train MOCs after I
> > get my current project out of the way. Actually, my current project would
> > probably look OK in a layout, but more on that when it's nearer to
> > completion...
> > > I think the idea would be to aim small for the first year, but make it
> > > effective, and then if that goes well, gradually scale it up for other
> > > years.
> > I second that. Do you have any more details about the show? What kind of area
> > would be available? What other kind of stuffs there?
>
> I'll ring the people that orgainse it thursdayish, I just wanted to see if
> anyone at all was interested, there'd be no point setting something up with
> them if there wasn't any takers from this side. It's a model railway show,
> so we're talking scale,scenery,serious stuff here. That's partly why I made
> it a general message rather than just emailing the trainies, Studs has been
> able to pull of at least one "bring some buildings and we'll whack 'em
> together for a town" thing, and it looked good. If we get some 6 months run
> up for this one we could do even better. I'm guessing that we won't go much
> above 4mx3m which if you've access to Track Designer, you'll see isn't
> really that much room to run in. This means one possibly two loops with
> shortish (and few) sidings. Of course the more trains (and own created
> trains) the better, see a previous Studfest for a 7 car 7740.
> My feeling is that we should be aiming for as train/town as possible and if
> this means not displaying some stuff, oh well. That said, a harbour with
> ship may have to be a necessary feature, perhaps even a (ruined?) castle.
>
> > If there's enough interest, maybe it'd be worth approaching LA to see if
> > they're interested in helping out at all? (I said *maybe*)
>
> Funnily enough I was thinking exactly the same thing. Dependent on having
> keen people here and a firm commitment to do the show and having orgainised
> a bit with the model railroaders I was going to write(or phone/email or just
> plain make an appointment with) the publicity/customer service whatever and
> see if they'd be interested in helping out in some small way, after all it's
> advertising the brick isn't it?
>
> James (
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