My impressions are about the same. I was only there on Saturday and were not many visitors. That is when most are usually there to find items before they sell. All in all it was fun though. As Ira said, not much waiting in line to run a train but someone had trains running all day. Saw an interesting Lego Layout that I had not seen before. Even the trains were made of Legos. Talked to those guys and found out they are a club with different chapters around the state. The few vendors that were there were the usual ones with very few individuals selling.
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From: Ira Schneider <ira_schneider@Iname.com>
To: ttat-members@aoot.com <ttat-members@aoot.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 11:16 am
Subject: Re: AMRE show report?
Here is my impression of the show.
The show was sparsely attended. There were large empty spaces in the Civic
Center
(meaning not very many vendor tables). Even though there were large empty
spaces,
we had a problem setting up the layout since the area we were assigned was too
narrow for the layout I designed. (They promised us a 52' x 35' area. They
actually
gave us a 52' x 25' area.) Since the whole back wall of the Civic Center was
open, we moved to a back corner and set up a large L-shaped layout instead of
the layout
I originally designed (a rectangle with two long, sweeping S-curves).
There were also relatively few visitors to the show.
My impression was that there were more people selling O-gauge equipment
than usual.
We had a nice layout and a reasonable turnout of our members. We rarely had
people waiting for track time. Legacy and TMCC were working well and DCS
even worked most of the time. I had the new ABCD switch modules in the layout
and we switched trains back and forth several times. I was concerned that there
would be very little scenery on the (large) layout, but I was wrong. Adrian
sent his
oil field and city scene modules, Ricky expanded his city scene to three
modules, and I had the carnival and trolleys set up. There was something for
visitors to look at all around the layout.
I am working on the pictures and videos from the show. Hopefully, I will be
able
to finish them in a week or so.
Perhaps other people who attended the show can share theire impressions of the
show.
Ira
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TTAT members reflector.