@legodude
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Our Friend’s son in Erie does also make syrup. Lines everywhere running to a pool and they ended up building a pressure boiler shack. Quite the set up. Are you this complex?
Great seasonal look. The use of snow as a prop is great. Maybe tomorrow you can post the ice planet version!
When I did this before at WPARRM, I did have to answer number of questions, but I made it easy for them. The first meeting I had with them, I brought some building, trains, vehicles (just sets) and they were sold. It took a little more to work the details as they are an organization with a structure, history, and like to work a certain way. We outlined the space and pre-built the set ups in my house and moved them to the building. It took me about 2 hours to set them up once I arrived. I returned the morning before they opened and got everything finished and running. I was there the first few hours and then I would stop by periodically to check. I showed them how to start everything and they did it most days. I tried to stop by when they opened most days to be sure everything was good and would fix a couple items which got touched or moved. The only thing I would not leave running while I was not there is the roller coaster as it de-railed too often even though people loved it. They are all great guys who love trains. They were very nice to me and most were amazed by the details.
The one item they really wanted that I could not help them with was a “hands on display” for the kids. My only thoughts were if we could get some duplo track and glue it down and allow the kids to use duplos to build things around the track and run the trains around the track like the Brio or Thomas the tank push trains.
Thanks Bob….I was thinking you would be in.
I have ton of 12V/4.5V items from the sets (100 RR lights, crossings, track, signals, switches, motors, trains, wires)PS….I have not followed up with WPARRM recently, so I cannot say they would support. They took this year off due to COVID, so things may have changed. I have to follow up.
My goal was really to see if the Western PA RR Museum team would be interested in permanent larger display of legos and use these as the starting point. I would love to have the Lugs team (whoever was interested) work to integrate and refresh portions of the display bi-annually. The problem was they were not open this year, so they are on hold for now.
That is what I thought too. I decided to go out on a lim and drive to West Virginia to buy it. It was the real deal. Some of the blocks are aged, but must are not and there are over 250 monorail track pieces, 7 vehicles and working motors which was my main interest. I was surprised by the amount of bulk legos, 9V/12V train and accessories and 2 full bins (56Q) of people. so if you have any specific affections for 1988/1989 legos types let me know and we can work it out. Forestmen, bluecoat soldiers, pirates, castle townspeople, horses, and boat hauls. There are a number of non-lego pieces I need to purge which I would normally would just through away, but I think because of the number of them, I will try to find a home for them.
Nice Idea. Here is an example of the track that the original owner had. Quite elaborate. He was an architect, so he did a nice job of sketching it out.
The 9:30 to 11:00 slot will work if you are not going to use them. Please be sure you are the first priority.
Thanks, LenGood evening Josh,
Do you have any tickets left for the brick bar? My wife said she wanted to go….so why not. If I could get 4 it would be great.
Not sure what you may have left at this point.
Thanks, LenNice. I do not have the Eiffel Tower. For some reason I did not see the Alpine Village. I really like the idea of the lego backdrop of mountains.
Make sure @greg sees your winter display
I saw it! I saw it! I like the snowy mountain and the ski slope and …
Len, how do you store your builds? I understand that major landscapes had to be disassembled in the move from Erie, but certainly a lot of those buildings are still intact, and we know that if you leave LEGO out for awhile, it collects dust.
I generally break down all the buildings and all the scenery and put them back in their boxes. I only have the modular building on shelves in my basement. Very little re-use of scenery.I use a paint brush to dust them every so often. There are a decent amount of old blocks in the the white snow, so watch out where those huskies go.
The train “standards” would be a decent thing for me to help out with to sort of work my way into it. I will be out of town 2 of 4 weeks in January, but February should be better.
This set-up took me about three weeks to complete due to the previous one being set up at Thanksgiving. There were lots of details missed.
I will have to shrink the other photos down to post them. The reality is I use a lot of pieces (and people) that I have to form a scene. Not near the artistic ability of some of what I have seen posted. Realized I lived in Erie, so my only access to bricks was store sets until the last 5 year when there was at least an eBay option for random bricks for me as I was not connected to a group.
