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Re: BF 2003 Container Swap
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lugnet.trains.org
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Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:53:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.trains.org, Ross Crawford wrote:
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Thanks for the info Lar. How does this generally work? Do all clubs that
register bring enough containers to swap with all the others? Or do you
choose who you want to swap with beforehand? Also it looks like some clubs
swap stickers, M>ltc would possibly want to do this, depending on the number
of swaps, to reduce luggage space required. AFAIK I’m the only Aus intending
to attend, though that may change. Certainly the only M>ltc rep so far.
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At BrickFest 2003 in DC we did an “incremental swap”. Search for posts by Rob
Hendrix around that time, he posted some very good explanations. Basically,
in an incremental, suppose that there are 10 old (already have each other’s
containers from a previous swap) and 5 new (never did a swap before) clubs.
The old clubs bring 5 containers each. The new clubs bring 14 each. At the
end of it each old club has 5 containers (one each from each of the news) and
the news have 15 each (one each from the 10 old and the 4 other new clubs).
Mix stickers in or mix in clubs that participated in some previous
incrementals but not all, and it gets more complicated but that’s the gist.
So far all the swaps have been incremental. If a club chooses to participate
it is in for all clubs that it needs to swap with, there is no “I like ABLTC
so they get one, but not CDLTC so they don’t get a container from us” that
would be bogus.
Rob did up a tracking spread that tracked who had to bring how many of what.
That’s findable too if you find his old posts.
Hope that helps. (if someone wanted to write up an ILTCO library article on
this, that would be great too!)
Coordinating this is not hard but it’s good if it is done by a somewhat
detail oriented person... I would LOVE to get a volunteer for this! It only
takes a small amount of time at the con, most of the work is advance work.
Any volunteers???
Don’t forget I am also looking for people to give presentations! Rosco maybe
you could do one on modeling trains while standing on your head?? :-) Or
challenges in working in very large scale like with that streetcar you did?
++Lar
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I’m thinking about going to the brickfest in Portland.
I just have to see what a plane ticket costs.
And the other expences.
Do we make one container for each LTC ?
Or 1 container for each member off all LTC’s ?
And how do I put a order in for LTC containers ?
On the containers we have our LTC symbol (M>ltc).
Do we date the container 2004 Portland Brickfest?
What size is the train layout going to be ?
And how many moduals ?
What size trains will be running ?
Six or Eight wide ?
I will be bringing Two train MOC’s .
Could I run them on the track ?
Or just display them.
Do I need to bring track to display them ?
Will there be DCC trains ?
Thanks , Teunis. M>ltc
(hopefully another Aussie coming)
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| (...) One per club, typically, although if you want to bring extras you can (...) If by "put an order in" you mean say that your club wants to participate, you would communicate that to the container swap coordinator once he or she volunteers.(1) If (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| (...) At BrickFest 2003 in DC we did an "incremental swap". Search for posts by Rob Hendrix around that time, he posted some very good explanations. Basically, in an incremental, suppose that there are 10 old (already have each other's containers (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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