Thanks for jumping on this, guys! PBF was awesome, but also a huge time drain, so I haven’t been able to focus on LVRR until now.
Tim, I’ll check out the layout in BlueBrick tonight (but if you can post a JPEG or something, that’d also be rad.) Like we said when we met last week, there’s definitely room for improvisation, as long as we have a general plan.
As for Ben’s MILS baseplates, I think we successfully fudged a transition (from MILS to track just lying on the table) at the last two events, and can probably get away with it again; long term, I’d love to see us work on MILSing more of our track. OOH, and Dan / Evan / I attended Cale from PennLUG’s Train seminar (basically a walk-around of their massive 29’x83′ layout and discussion of many things we saw) on Friday, and learned some fun stuff, like how to make larger radius curves by using straight track and only connecting one of the clips. Food for thought in the future…
I just got an e-mail from Richard with the event, and he said he’ll be at Huber Hall around 2:30 on Friday. I’m not sure that I can get there that early (will have to see if a half day is an option), but if anyone wants to go early that’s fine. I asked if there’s a cutoff time that evening where we’ll have to clear out; will let yinz know when I hear back. Obviously, the more we get set up that night, the better.
I believe the current set-up team is Tim, Laura, Ben, Susie, and me; with Dan subbing in for Laura on Saturday to help staff. Saturday setup can start at 7:30; doors open 9 AM – 4 PM; teardown will hopefully not take too long after that.