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Over the weekend, COLTC was in the rural town of Dennison, Ohio; about a 2 hour
drive north-east of Columbus. The Dennison Train Festival was put on by
Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, in cooperation with the Ohio Central Railroad.
The festival included several steam & diesel engines; 1 & 3 hour train rides;
train excursions with stops in Columbus, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, PA, &
Pittsburgh; model rail displays; railroad flea market; live entertainment; &
much more.
We spent over 12 hours with 8 people setting up the display on Thursday, with
the display size being over 25’x30’ with 8 sky scrappers, 12 baseplate long
suspension bridge, a 2x5 baseplate replica of the Dennison Train Depot provded
by Ken Cefaratti, 4 indepentdant loops (the outer loop was a figure 8 loop
spanning the whole outside of the display), & 2 monorail loops.
Other than having to set up outside in a tent on gravel, sky scrappers leaning
in every direction, with 2”-3” inches of rain water under the display from the
Biblical deluge Thursday night, the show went off without a hitch. The event
sponcers were great. The people & children with simply enthralled. I think I
answered the question, “so how many hours did it take you all to set this up?”
about 50 times a day.
Here’s the picts from the show:
Troy Cefaratti
J. Jacob Hopkins
my picts
I think John Bucy took some pictures as well. I’d imagine he’ll have them up
soon as well...
Now I’m off to wash the dirt off my SUV from where I got it stuck in the mud on
Saturday... boy, I’m tired from the weekend... When’s BrickFest? Do I have
enough time to rest up?
--Michael Huffman
President, COLTC http://www.coltc.org/
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| Here's a few more pics: (URL) Talking to the chairman of the event on Sunday, the estimated attendance was roughly 30.000 visitors!! They had just over 5K on Friday, well over 10K on Saturday, and Sunday was definitely better attended than Saturday, (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| (...) Simply outstanding. What a gig. And what a show you put on! Your club's work is impressive to say the least. It's comforting to know that if I had ended up staying in Columbus, I would have found kindred spirits with whom to hang:-) JOHN (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| Some nice stuff there, well done. Call it an easter egg, but I love looking for derailed engines and cars. I also love the shot of a dad who's parked his child in stroller next to the table edge, and as dad isn't looking the child has uprooted trees (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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