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Portland Train Event
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:33:56 GMT
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This past weekend, February 25-26, 2012, a great train event happened in
Portland, Oregon, USA at the Worlds Greatest Hobby show. Sure, the show itself
is a train event, but at the show something even greater happened.
There were 3 separate train layouts by 3 separate train clubs! The only type of
train to have more layouts was HO, with about 8 layouts. We equaled the second
most popular traditional scale, N, who also had 3 layouts.
All three layouts were excellent. I participated in the Greater Portland Lego
Railroaders layout, which was the smallest of the 3 and most traditional modern
train layout in many respects.
Next to us was the Puget Sound Lego Train Club layout. Their larger layout was
period based - something commonly seen in traditional model railroading. They
did an excellent job of modeling San Francisco and Central California around
1900.
And next to them was the new Portland based club, PortLUG, running a large
layout full of spactacular trains and buildings.
All layouts were well populated and detailed and used not only traditional 9V,
but also Power Functions. All included not only MOCs, but also stock Lego sets
and modified stock Lego sets - a testament to how stock Lego sets have improved
in recent years. Layouts also featured compatible non-Lego elements in many
areas to add to the overall look and feel.
Several years ago Steve Barile stated that he believed we hadn't left the Lego
Golden Ages, but were in fact entering them. I think he may be right!
-Matt :)
PS - I should also mention that you should mark your calendars for the first
weekend in June this year when Bricks Cascade (a new Lego convention) will come
to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland! Hope to see you there!
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 | | Re: Portland Train Event
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| (...) Sounds great, Matt, but do we have to take your word for it, since we all know that a picture is worth a thousand of those. (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Portland Train Event
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| (...) Pix or it didn't happen! Also, today I came to LUGNET and found I needed to hit "next 20" TWICE to see what'd been said since my last visit. It's been too long since that was the case. (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.trains)
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