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Re: Portland Train Event
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:41:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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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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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.
JOHN
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Hummm... I thought I had pretty close to 1000 words in that message. But for
those who need more... 
Next to that group of AFOLs is the GPLR layout. Behind them, pretty much all
blocked, is the PSLTC layout. And in the way back you can see the tall
buildings of the PortLUG layout. I should mention that the PortLUG layout is
branded as Great Northern Lego Railway (GNLR). Thanks, Allen, for the picture.
For those who want more, I’ll update here when I hear of pictures up on Flicker
and such...
-Matt :)
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| (...) Thank, Matt! I look forward to it. In the meantime, who is the sketchy-looking dude without the facial hair in the yee-haw hat in the back row in the photo? (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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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)
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