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First photos of SCLTC’s Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND
California on March 25/26 are now up
here.
The weekend was an enormous success for the park which enjoyed two of its four
highest attendance days ever!
-Ted
SCLTC
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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First photos of SCLTC’s Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND
California on March 25/26 are now up
here.
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The weekend was an enormous success for the park which enjoyed two of its
four highest attendance days ever!
-Ted
SCLTC
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I’m a member of the SCLTC, and I have to say, this was a great event. The park
had over 13,000 people attending on Saturday, and near that on Sunday. Needless
to say the layout was swamped by kids and adults.
Photographs don’t do it justice, but the roundhouse that the Michons made was
ammazing. I didn’t build much of the layout, but I did get to run some of my
character engines. The layout was setup so that it could be run as a giant
folded double dogbone, or as a folded endless loop. We mostly ran it as a
endless loop and 3 engins chasing each other using DCC, this also gave us some
siding track to display cars and engins on.
Mat
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Great looking rolling stock Mat. I wasn’t able to get to Legoland over the
weekend to see your Thomas the Train locomotive and other character engines.
Are you going to be displaying them at the upcoming train show at Fullerton
too?
Ray
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From: “Mathew Clayson” mathew_impact1@yahoo.com
To: lugnet.trains.org.scltc@lugnet.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: SCLTC Thomas the Tank Engine Weekend at LLCA Photos
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I’m a member of the SCLTC, and I have to say, this was a great event. The • park
had over 13,000 people attending on Saturday, and near that on Sunday. • Needless
to say the layout was swamped by kids and adults.
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Photographs don’t do it justice, but the roundhouse that the Michons made • was
ammazing. I didn’t build much of the layout, but I did get to run some of • my
character engines. The layout was setup so that it could be run as a giant
folded double dogbone, or as a folded endless loop. We mostly ran it as a
endless loop and 3 engins chasing each other using DCC, this also gave us • some
siding track to display cars and engins on.
Mat
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----- Original Message -----
In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
First photos of SCLTC’s Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND
California on March 25/26 are now up
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Ray Silva wrote:
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Great looking rolling stock Mat. I wasn’t able to get to Legoland over the
weekend to see your Thomas the Train locomotive and other character engines.
Are you going to be displaying them at the upcoming train show at Fullerton
too?
Ray
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Ray,
Thanks Ray, BTW some of the rolling stock isn’t mine. Susan built the Thomas
that was used, along with the black troublesome trucks. My Thomas kept
derailing. 8(
As far as I know, the current plan is to re-use and add to the TTTE display for
Fullerton. I’ll see you there.
Mat
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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First photos of SCLTC’s Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND
California on March 25/26 are now up
here.
The weekend was an enormous success for the park which enjoyed two of its
four highest attendance days ever!
-Ted
SCLTC
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That round hose IS very nice. Love the windows. Also, I like the use of green
click hinges on the trees.
Great work!
Jonathan
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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First photos of SCLTC’s Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND
California on March 25/26 are now up
here.
The weekend was an enormous success for the park which enjoyed two of its
four highest attendance days ever!
-Ted
SCLTC
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That round hose IS very nice. Love the windows. Also, I like the use of
green click hinges on the trees.
Great work!
Jonathan
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Round house, not hose. Got it.
Jonathan
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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That round hose IS very nice. Love the windows.
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Jonathan-
The windows were done by David Michon who also did the turntabe and computed
geometries that worked on stud connections for a round structure so large. David
was in Chicago over the weekend so he missed the event.
We placed a separate BrickLink order just to get the 1x6 sand green tiles for
the divided lights that arrived the day before David flew out. The panes are the
1x2x2 transparent smoked panels that were briefly avaialble at PABs last year.
The roof was an idea we came up with a few weeks back. We just assumed it was
going to work, and fortunately it did because there wasn’t any time left to
implement a Plan B. We used up most of an entire K9 of black tiles to make the
roof and even more light bley ones to do the floor.
We’ve got some ideas to rework the building for the next show like arrangin the
floor radially to make the track lower, use less tile, and auto align with the
perimeter wall. We didn’t have room on this layout (we had a 10’ x 10’
footprint) to display the full turntable or animate it, so that’s also yet to
come.
Glad you like it.
-Ted
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