Sounds like fun. We used to join to groups together at a local show. Our leader was Terry Nathan. We missed him when he passed.
Locally, there is another club, but in my area there was no interest. Maybe now that I am gone, T-Trak will grow.
I do miss it. But no transportation to get to the show, even if they give us our space back.
I got my best in show at the Roanoke Convention. Met my friend there. We are both from Texas.
He is the only one who came to see me when I was bedridden.
Enjoy dreaming and building your modules with scenery.
Oh, by the way, when the National professional show came to San Antonio, it was me who came up with the idea, got the space. Others took over, and we put the then largest T-Trak layout ever put together. I think it was two miles. I am not sure. We had a five star, and lots of fun.
When I first exhibited at their Houston show, I had one photographer that spent over one hour taking pictures of my Circus layout.
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On Aug 18, 2022, at 5:32 PM, Jeffrey Reynolds <Cteno4@...> wrote:
?Howard,
I¡¯m here in the Washington DC area and we have our little Japanese model train club of usually about a dozen members. We have a few active Ttrak groups in the area as well in Baltimore and northern va, so lots of Ttrak in the area.
Wow, that¡¯s one of the biggest continuous scenes I¡¯ve heard of! I¡¯ve seen one end loops like 6-8 feet long that are continuous, but nothing that long, but I usually don¡¯t make it to big annual shows.
Sorry to hear of the health issues, never fun to have to give up a hobby like that. Maybe focus into just doing small hyper detailed modules for fun. You big shot sounds like it¡¯s a lot to transport and deal with. Finding a good home is hard. We had one member move back overseas a long time back and he luckily was able to sell his excellent loop of about 10 modules to another club member. He actually returned a few years later for two years and built 4 corners and two doubles and sold them to the club at the cost of all the materials/buildings and that was the start of a club owned loop we can take to all shows and just add to with what ever shows up and not the tedious and nerve wracking will we have 4 corner actually show up!
I have a couple of ideas for some longer scenes I want to try. One member has a design set up for a peninsula single track loop off the outside line that would be a spirited away anime theme big scene. We also prototyped out a very deep module for a valley scene that would hang between two tables.
Cheers
Jeff
On Aug 18, 2022, at 6:18 PM, Howard Young <howardly13@...> wrote:
Jeff
Where is your location. I am 20 miles East of San Antonio, Texas.
I like what you are saying. I have a Circus layout, having a six foot module Carnival plus a six inch continuation on the adjoining modules, on either side. My Circus parade includes around 10 feet of City scene behind the parade. I have thousands of people in the display. With my yard, I have 22¡¯ total display, plus the end cap, which is still under construction. At shows, I used to put temporary buildings on the end cap.
When the display was only 9 feet, I won best in show at the US National Train Show.
I also have about 20 feet of modules with each having its own theme.
Regretfully, because of health reasons, I have put my entire collection up for sale. The first person who I talked to. He asked me almost a year if I was interested in selling. He is a great Ttracker and goes to lots of shows. Everyone loves his hi there how you doing good have you gotten any offers yet too good anything with considerate good well I fell again yesterday I fell today and I got an a I¡¯m not getting enough Italian give me all my dear daughter whatever it was supposed to say granddaughter in law
Howard
