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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
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> > Could someone please let me know, how many people have been attendes of the
> > GATSs Lego Layout. Who has been there and whose models are to be seen? I know
> > only a very few of the names so far, so please let me know a little more....
> > Who has planned the layout?
> > Who has brought rolling stock, who buildings?
> > Have there been people just for working on the layout without own models? • Have
> > you chartered some trucks for the transport of this amount of bricks? ;-)
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> See lugnet.org.us.michlug or the MichLUG website at www.michlug.org for
> details of this particular GATS show, which was held in Grand Rapids MI
> weekend before last.
Thanks Larry!
I had read a few of the lugnet.org.us.michlug reports, but I was just to stupid
to check out www.michlug.org on my own. :-(
That URL answers in fact all my questions. Maybe it would be helpful for now
and future events if people add just a small text file with the URL of the
specific LTCs homepage into their brickshelf gallery.
> However GATS (Great American Train Shows) is a company that puts on a train
> show or two just about every weekend of the year, *somewhere* in the US. So
> US LTCs have started exhibiting at shows local to them. This is win win as
> it draws crowds to GATS, GATS pays a small appearance fee and the LTCs get
> to show off their stuff and meet potential new members.
That part of the story was quite familiar for me. Just one last question: which
was the first LTC to exhibit at GATS? The PNLTC or Conan with "his" GMLTC
layout?
> I set FUT to org.us.michlug.... most of your questions are answered there
> (where this was heavily discussed before, during and after) or on the
> website... the planning was done via that group and offline, various MichLUG
> members contributed track, buildings, baseplates, vehicles, rolling stock
> etc, and we brought the stuff onto the show floor in our own private
> vehicles (including a pickup truck, a Suburban, a Durango and several
> passenger cars, 7 in all) and took it out the same way. GATS supplies the
> tables.
>
> Expect to see lots more of these sorts of GATS show reports from this and
> other clubs, the ball is starting to pick up momentum. I think GFLUG has a
> GATS show this weekend IIRC.
I'm happy to have a free web access from work: there are hundreds of megabytes
to download each week: brickfest, michlug-GATS, private galleries, ...
Regards,
Ben
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| (...) That's a can of worms! Conan as an individual exhibitor clearly predates the PNLTC by a lot but it's a matter of semantics as to whether he "was" the GMLTC all by himself. Not a can I want to pop open at this time :-) FUT to the group (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains.org)
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