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Re: Nov 02 Meeting a Great Success!!
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Tue, 5 Nov 2002 03:31:45 GMT
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Looks like it was a great meeting--I'm sorry I missed it! I hoped to make
it, but my coming would have required my wife to cut short her work for the
day due to some commitments we had later in the day (yeah, I know, slightly
complicated!), and since she needs to work to graduate...anyways, the layout
looked like a ton of fun. You guys appear to have done a great job throwing
together a nice town without too much planning--you should be able to do a
nice job at a train show! Speaking of which, it looks like I'll miss the
show in January--we have a trip to the Bahamas planned for that
time--another major bummer since I've long been hoping for a Lego showing at
a train show in the area.
Play well,
Alan "Excuses" Demlow ;-)
In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Kevin Salm writes:
> On Nov 02 LUCNY met for the first time in many months. Planned were
> a Train/Town layout and John Barnes' demonstration of his automated
> sensor-controlled Train layout. Both were successful and a lot of fun was had
> by all who attended.
>
> Those present were:
> Kevin Salm (host)
> Dave Amos
> John Barnes
> Ed McGlynn
> John Rudy
> Wayne Sardullo
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> John Barnes set up his automated layout that has track powered as four isolated
> zones to control the speed of the trains to prevent collisions. Since this had
> not been set-up or tested since BrickFest 2002 in July, John was not certain it
> would operate correctly. Fortunately, it worked well and we all enjoyed it.
>
> Set-up of the Train/Town Layout took about 3 hours. Then we had time to view
> everyone's models, experiement with Ed's and Wayne's remote-controlled
> switching, run various trains, and just have a good time. The highlight of the
> layout was seeing how everyone's contributions can be swiftly integrated into a
> seemingly well-planned town that represented the building styles of our
> members.
>
> Our last bit of fun was attempting to run the longest train possible to travel
> the entire rail circuit. With several locomotives at various points along the
> train, we were successful in running over 30 pieces of rolling stock of various
> types, weights, and lengths. Our final train was at least 50 pieces of
> equipment, but this was unsuccessful at completing the loop and resulted in a
> minor derailment and serious destruction of some apparatus.
>
> During a short break for food, Wayne was honored for being our group leader and
> presented with a Lego sweatshirt as a going-away present. Due to
> circumstances, Wayne is relocating out of central New York State and will not
> be able to participate as freely to future LUCNY events. This leaves LUCNY
> without a clear leader, but Wayne has offered to assist us when possible.
>
> Plenty of digital photos were taken by John Rudy and Ed McGlynn but as of just
> now they are not available for viewing. John's Brickshelf folder is here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27889
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> As this meeting was a success, we now are confident that we can produce an
> enjoyable, working Train/Town layout for public shows. We have tenatively
> planned to participate in an upcoming Train show in the Binghmaton area in
> mid-January. Ed McGlynn will make the arrangements for us and keep us abreast
> of details. No other meetings have yet been planned for LUCNY.
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> __Kevin Salm__
> host of the Nov 02 LUCNY meeting
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