To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.org.usOpen lugnet.org.us in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Organizations / United States / 296
295  |  297
Subject: 
Re: Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.wamalug
Date: 
Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:37:05 GMT
Viewed: 
891 times
  
I can understand your frustration.  My own view is that anytime you post
something it seems to be fairly random as far as the response.  I've posted
some things that I didn't think were all that important and had 32 e-mail
replies and generated a lot of traffic, other times, interesting stuff just
dies.  Sounds like you had a cool layout, wish I could have seen it.

One thing I would like to say though is that your web-site being down is a
major bummer since a lot of people find out about organizations that way.  I
(living in Georgia) visited the NGLTC site and asked the two contacts to send
me an e-mail on their next show and got no response, so I'm still waiting to
see a lego train show (although I did see the pictures posted of yours and I
thought it was awesome).  So it can work both ways.  If you ever head south,
let me know!

Matt

In lugnet.general, Jeff Stembel writes:
> Why has there been such apathy towards Wamalug's train shows?  In the past
> month, there have been a total of nine messages from non-members about our
> setups.  There has been absolutly no discussion, no critiques, and very little
> praise.  Do you all just not care?  Does everyone think we aren't good enough
> to even deign to speak to us?  Heck, we've even mentioned (twice) we
> successfully had DCC in our setups, and there is hardly a peep.  I've seen • tons
> of messages asking how to do it in the past year, and when it *is* done, no • one
> cares.  I'm sorry, but since there seems to be no interest, I am seriously
> considering discontinuing these types of posts.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> In lugnet.trains, 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 back up...



Message is in Reply To:
  Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
 
Why has there been such apathy towards Wamalug's train shows? In the past month, there have been a total of nine messages from non-members about our setups. There has been absolutly no discussion, no critiques, and very little praise. Do you all (...) (27 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org)

65 Messages in This Thread:




























Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR