Category Archives: LEGOPalooza

LEGOPalooza was Crazy Busy

February 1, 2009 – 7:40 am

My scheduled worked out and I was able to be at Morehead when the doors opened yesterday and the flood of people was overwhelming.  It was packed, so packed it was difficult to move around.
The train layout looks great, we had a bit of trouble getting the outer loop to run (it is really long) [...]

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Setup fairly uneventful

February 1, 2009 – 7:37 am

Other than running a little late, my setup for LEGOPalooza was fairly uneventful.  Big thanks to Will Stroh and Dan Larson for their assistance setting up the train layout.  They laid out almost all of the track and baseplates for me which is a huge help.
I had spent a couple days really limiting what I [...]

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Final Layout Plan for LEGOPalooza

January 27, 2009 – 6:10 pm

My area of the layout got tweaked a bit today as we finalize the layout plan.  In general the layout is a bit cleaner and it is by far the largest layout NCLTC has ever done.  I have a few things to figure out but for the most part, I think I am in pretty [...]

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The last module!

January 25, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Renee and I just finished the last module I need for my neighborhood portion of the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza next weekend (yikes!).

This is a middle module and features a bunch of the dark red elements I got from the UTB project.  Unfortunately I ran out of the dark red headlight bricks – I [...]

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The Dark Blue house

January 25, 2009 – 2:57 pm

This weekend, with Renee’s help, I completed another module for the neighborhood.  It is a dark blue house built using mostly bricks I received from working on the UTB project.  I really wanted to add some medium blue striping to it but I don’t have any and Maersk blue doesn’t look right, it has too [...]

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