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Re: TEXLUG Meeting Wrap-up
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lugnet.org.us.texlug
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Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:16:28 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Thomas Avery writes:
> Take a look at all the great MOCs at the meeting:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13395
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> The meeting was a great success. I think everyone had a great time and
> enjoyed the gathering.
Hear!Hear!
>
> We met on Saturday at Jason's house in Austin. We started at 10am and stayed
> until after 6pm.
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> We had a good time playing with the trains and looking at everyone else's
> MOCs. Everyone did an excellent job with their MOCs and showed off their
> excellent building abilities.
> MOC CONTEST RESULTS:
> first place: Laura's Cathedral
> second place: Anthony's Griffon
(who took its revenge on the Cathedral)
> third place: Tom's Fantasy Train
> SOME ACTIVITIES:
> (Please reply with more if you can, I know I didn't get everything here.)
> The train layout was just for fun and to get an idea of how much train stuff
> we had as a group.
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> We started by laying out a huge double oval in Jason's den. From there we
> added sidings and integrated buildings and bridges.
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> We ran various train combinations around the tracks and bridges, and we
> found out the hard way which train cars didn't fit through the bridges.
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> Throughout the day we rearranged cars and locos, added sidings, added
> buildings and created small sections of towns. Tim and I built a small
> elevated oval that crossed over the main ovals.
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> Anthony posed his green dragon in various pictures and let his griffon
> attack Laura's cathedral. Needless to say there were many unique picture
> taking opportunities.
>
> Indranil showed off his 12v trains which were quite interesting. Most of us
> have never seen the old 12v's.
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> There were a few derailments and other crashes, but nothing serious. No one
> was crazy enough to stage a head-on or other catastrophe.
(I was crazy enough to, if only you hadn't held me back-lol)
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> Pat brought his huge blue container of parts (sorted this time!), but the
> trading activity was much less at this meeting. I guess everyone focused on
> building MOCs and bringing them to the meeting.
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> We mostly sat around and talked about Lego while watching the trains. It was
> great spending a whole Saturday with other AFOLs and sharing our common
> interest in Lego.
Yes it was a great afternoon in which I had a most execellent time.Thanks to
all who made it a great afternoon!
Thanks
ShawnG
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