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I concur with Ira and Wayne. The show was not only sparsely attended, but there weren't that many vendors there. I think the O scale clubs could have been given more room without inconveniencing the vendors. The Trackers certainly could have made good use of more space, and so could the On30 Outlaws. --Lee DeGolyer > From: ira_schneider@Iname.com > To: ttat-members@aoot.com > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:16:50 -0500 > 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 > > > > ------ > TTAT members reflector. |