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Re: Display at Greenberg's Great Train and Collectible Toy Shows
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:35:44 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:


Each table costs a little over $30.  Our tables are pretty cost intensive for
their size compared to other clubs.  I think skirts for all the tables cost • about $75- Jeff
Stembel's mom was kind enough to sew them for us.

An cost effective solution I found to the skirts (if the show doesn't require
fire proof) are using colored bed sheets. I bought a few packs of green single
bed sheets at Walmart for around $4 each. Then I split the sheets in half, and
it fit just perfect. And it had a nice sewn edge on it. So for about $20 I had
enough skirts to go around a 18' x 18' layout.

jt

ps. the 800 piece buckets do work great for crowd control. Just cut a hole in
the top, insert a pipe (PVC or something) and I filled them with about 8inches
of concrete. Those things work great. I did find that when I only had one rope
going around kids kept coming through, but once I added a second lower rope I
put a stop to that.



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  Re: Display at Greenberg's Great Train and Collectible Toy Shows
 
(...) Hey- I forgot to give the NGLTC credit for the buckets... I got the idea from their website. We just use sand and rocks to hold the sticks in ours- it makes them easier to transport. We've had the same problem with the lack of a lower rope, no (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains.org)

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  Re: Display at Greenberg's Great Train and Collectible Toy Shows
 
(...) Our first layout was 10' x ~13'. An oval composed of 10 40"x40" tables and a lower 40"x60" table. The pattern was like this: XXXX XX X XLXX the L represents the low table. (...) Each table costs a little over $30. Our tables are pretty cost (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)

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