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Mike Poindexter wrote:
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> John,
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> Is there some reason to put 20 levels of bricks other than to use up all those
> bricks in colors nobody likes?
There are two competing philosophies here...
PNLTC has tables. They put their tables together and they build the
layout "from scratch" each time, putting track together and buildings
down, etc. onto a brown or green colored table. At least that is what I
understand (especially since I have seen a video of them setting up).
This makes for a highly flexible, but long time to set up, layout. Every
show is different! It can take all day to set up and 1/2 day to tear
down
GMLTC has modules. Each module is a completely scenicked environment and
the track is permanently affixed to the lego below. Only the very large
buildings that otherwise would make the module too tall to transport
effectively are removed, and they always go back in the same place.
GMLTC modules are more like model railroad modules in that they are
pre-built.
This makes for a fairly rigid (you can vary the number of modules you
bring, and the order in which you arrange them, but a module has what it
has on it unless you tear down and build again, something that N-trak
can't do as easily, LOL) but fast to set up. Modules are brought in on
wheeled racks, out of the custom trailer, deployed onto the folddown
tables, and you're up and running in 1/2 hour, and you can tear down in
about the same time.
Now, you COULD make modules out of something else than Lego and just
affix the track via nails or whatever.
But given that they are Lego, and given that they are 30 to 50 or so
inches wide, you NEED to be 15 bricks high. Think about what a 30 inch
wide, 45 inch long 5 brick high module would be like. It would be too
fragile to live without a sheet of plywood always underneath it. These
modules can be lifted up, flipped over, stacked on top of each other,
etc.
Now, as it turns out, the modules DO live in wooden carriers that have
power strips on them etc. once they are done, but during construction
they do not.
Given that they have to mostly be 15 bricks high for structural
integrity, that has been taken advantage of. There IS a subway in one
module, and the features such as the Ore Dock and some of the bridges
are built in at track level instead of elevated.
PNLTC approach is much much cheaper. GMLTC is much much more purist.
GMLTC is lucky to have a fanatic such as Conan who has millions of
bricks to build modules with. He is the entire reason the club exists.
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| (...) One nit of clarification-- the module is designed to *remain* on the plywood table, and it is transported as one unit. You *could* pick up a module free of support, but that's dicey business, given how long it takes to put them together in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| Maybe I'm taking this the wrong way. See comments below (...) Well, it's almost from scratch. We work on a table arrangement and a track plan for each show so we have a "schematic" to work from to ease on setup. Some of us have pre-built modules, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| John, Is there some reason to put 20 levels of bricks other than to use up all those bricks in colors nobody likes? The only thing I can think of is so that you can drop down 20 layers to make a subway, but it seems cheaper to just build a platform (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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