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Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:39:44 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Eric Kingsley writes:

I bet the fire coverage for our layout would be about the best of any LEGO
train/town layout :-).

Actually, in that vein, I was thinking about something:  The best train layouts
I've seen have *action* occuring in them, not just trains running around.  With
the absolutely beautiful engines available to us, why not have a fire going on?
I'm sure someone (heck, I'll do it) could build a building in the process of
burning, and the firefighters could be, well, trying to put it out.

It would also give us an excuse to include more than one of the Stations,
because a big enough fire rings more alarms- we could have another engine in
the process of getting to the scene. :D

On the subject of action, though- perhaps one of the robotics folks could be
convinced to use their RCXs to build a moving portion of the layout?  I've seen
other people mention RCXs with light sensors closing and opening RR Crossing
gates, but maybe other, more scenery-oriented things could be animated, too?

eric



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  Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
 
(...) Ahh, now this got my heart a-pumpin'!! While talking with Joe at the last meeting, I had been describing my woes about how I have motors and wires and enough stuff to make some very hip motorized devices, but never any inspiration. Well, here (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
  Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
 
(...) ...Lots of tricks like that are fun to include in a display :-) in our first layout, we had protestors at city hall carrying signs and all, compleat with police escorts, and a truck wildly out of control about to plow into them... Then there (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
  Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
 
(...) Definitely. Perhaps we could even have some animated minifigs.... I'd like to try something that automatically loads/unloads some cargo automatically, and perhaps even a factory which "processes" that cargo in some way. (Perhaps this could (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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  Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
 
(...) I bet the fire coverage for our layout would be about the best of any LEGO train/town layout :-). As far as the tables go I think we could knock out 6 tables on the PNLTC model in an afternoon easy. They have plans for their tables on their (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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