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Re: Pictures from RichLUG's Latest Train Show
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Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:29:02 GMT
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Timothy D. Freshly <TIMOTHY.FRESHLY@VERIZONavoidspam.NET>
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Nate:
It was great meeting you. Thanks for coming down and helping us out on
Sunday. Also, glad to hear about your success with the Santa Fe cars.
We're hoping that a smoother track bed will also help the cars run smoother.
Tim
"Nate Jacobs" <njelmo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Guys.
>
> Enjoyed seeing the pictures. I am glad I was able to come down that
> Sunday and see the layout. It was good to get to meet each of you as • well.
> I have managed to fix some of the issues with the Santa Fe train. I
> replaced the plates from the bottum of the cars (10022) with tiles and it
> runs a lot smoother around the curves. It also works well with two motors
> in the B-Unit and two speed regulators.
>
> Hopefully I will be able to come down for some other activities at some
> point. I have minimum 2 years here so I figure I had best use them • wisely.
>
> Nate
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>
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> In lugnet.org.us.richlug, Greg Perry writes:
> > Pictures of RichLUG's display at the 25th Annual RF&P Model Railroad show
> > are available on BrickShelf in the following gallery:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25928
> >
> > This gallery also includes one sub-folder (Brickgonia) that holds • pictures
> > of my Halloween-oriented MOC's that were sitting on a separate table.
> >
> > The show took place over two weekends at the Science Museum of Virginia.
> > While the attendance was fairly steady it was about a third of what the
> > organizers had advertised it would be. This apparently is due to the • fact
> > that there was very little publicity about the event on the part of the
> > Museum. Plus we were in direct competition with the State Fair the • second
> > weekend and the show was two months earlier than normal so regulars may • not
> > have realized it was going on.
> >
> > Regardless, we had a great time and once again, the Lego display was the • hit
> > of the show. The museum staff was so impressed with our layout and
> > creations that they are now talking about having a Lego weekend some time
> > next year. If this happens we'll be issuing invitations to other nearby
> > groups and LUGNETters to participate.
> >
> > I apologize for the quality of the pictures. They were taken with my • 35mm
> > camera and while the prints look great the transfer to jpg images on a
> > floppy disc seems to have caused some blurriness. Instead of thinking of
> > them as somewhat blurry photographs, think of them as really well done
> > watercolors - from that perspective they look great!
> >
> > Anyway, hopefully the pictures are clear enough to give folks an idea of
> > what our layout looked like. We do have some digital pics on the way • (yoo
> > hoo Bert! - you out there?)that will hopefully look a lot better.
> >
> > Currently we only have four members contributing to this display so we
> > probably will not get much bigger than this in the foreseeable future.
> > Instead we'll be working on filling in the gaps and adding more details.
> >
> > Greg
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| Hey Guys. Enjoyed seeing the pictures. I am glad I was able to come down that Sunday and see the layout. It was good to get to meet each of you as well. I have managed to fix some of the issues with the Santa Fe train. I replaced the plates from the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.richlug)
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