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Re: Show report
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Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:17:53 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> So I am not going to fault anyone for not taking advice beforehand. Advice
> is easy to give. Doing it is much harder.
indeed: and even nosediving engines offer lots of fun (and memorable moments),
after you have survived the first shock and found out nothong important is
broken...
> Two suggestions: Don't bring stock models, you'll know your own MOCs, and
> use stickers on the bottoms of things and inventory lists.
That's in fact planned for the next meeting.
> > What about your experience with driving trains of other people? We have
> > thought about kind of rule: only the owner of a train model is allowed to
> > work on the transformer, as long as his model is on the track. Has anybody
> > else experiences with rules like this, or is there no need for it? (I
> > myself do not like to see my favorites MOCs being part of a great train
> > crash, caused by anyone else than me.)
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> This seems unworkable, as all our controllers are in the center, and we
> needed the majority of the folks working the show on the outside.
Ok, that's the difference between a 100% Lego®-fan meeting and GATS. At our
meetings we never needed flyers and that stuff: all visitors exept from
children have been familiar with Lego® trains.
We always have had layouts with lots of ramps and bridges. So you need always
someone at the controller or trains won't go upphills or derail in downhill
curves. A flat 9V track layout can be handled without any problems as long as
any train runs on its own oval.
> We used three controllers per track circuit to lessen voltage drops. One
> circuit had gaps, one didn't. The gapped one was easier to control as you
> could more easily adjust speeds independently (it looks cool to have the
> train crawl through the yard and speed up on the other parts of the line)
That's a nice idea. We have used two transformers for upgoing track (full
power) and downhill track (reduced voltage) at our 1998 layout with the 4
meters bridge, but we haven't used gaps in the circuit.
BTW: I have just downloded all pictures from brickshelf: Larry P., Kai B. and
Scott S. have uploaded 52.2 Mb of picture data.... I fear it will take some
hours to take a clooser look at the stuff this evening. (And one hint at Larry
P.: I know cameras with some Megapixels are cool, but despite of this pictures
with reduced resolution (for e.g. 640x480) seem to offer enough quality for the
internet, don't they? If 400-kB-pictures like this one should be published at
all, is another question, one could dare to ask. ;-)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=28129
But in general I cannot get enough pictures of Lego®-train shows. Great chance
to find lots of good models in nice ambience. Thanks at all from MichLTC for
sharing them with us!
Leg Godt!
Ben
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| (...) Yes, but I don't like to take reduced resolution pics... and I didn't have the time to go through and make them smaller. So I dumped them all up with no QC (...) ++Lar (26 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Quite right - as you should. Are we the only two here (now that Matt isn't around much) who think (of train layouts) in three dimensions? 8-) (...) I was planning to use multiple gapped controllers at Supertrain2001, but hadn't (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| (...) Well, to a certain extent, advice is easy to give, and some of the things we ran into were things that people in the group (remember, this is a very loosely organized group with no structure, just forming, and many of the group members had (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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