Michigan LEGO® Users Group

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Scott Sanburn	Spencer Rezkalla	Jason Spears	Stefan Garcia
David Korhman	Ken Koleda	Alfred Speredelozzi	Kai Bordersen

Friday Night - July 12th, 2002

Anyway, I arrived about 2 hours late, since I had to wait for my wife Lynn to get out of work, and we hit both traffic and construction on US 131, and was delayed. I eventually arrived, and unloaded, and all the tables were built already, which meant our fears and concerns were largely unfounded, thanks for the great start, folks! Most of my modules and my train station were in shambles, as I had a hard time transporting them.

We got most of the display up already, a lot of people helped me get mine up and running. Thanks to all, I really appreciate it, and I will be sure to make them better next time! : ) We wrapped up at about 9:00PM, and went to our usual Big Boy's, near the highway, where we had a good time, even if the service was the usual slow self.

This is the first time I depended on others to help me set up my stuff, since I was rebuilding a lot of it. A big thanks goes to our new member, Andrew, thanks, I really appreciate you putting up with me!

Saturday, July 13th, 2002

Saturday started off early, at 7:00AM, I transported Al S. to the show, since he was staying at the Fairfield Inn as well (Nice hotel, BTW, about 15 minutes from GR) We arrived, and started getting other things ready, Tony helped with the train station a lot as I rebuilt the engine shed, thanks goes to Larry for the necessary red bricks (I can't believe I forgot those). The show started, and we had a lot of excitement, a lot of questions, a lot of accidents, especially when we transferred the shed to my layout, and a few wrecks. Kai started filming a lot of different things, as we tried to get the same feeling as the last show, where we got some excellent footage. We also had a news crew come by and take footage. This session ended at 5:00PM, and Tony, Rick, and I left to transport Rick home to the progress town of DeWitt, where he had a trip he had to go on.

Tony and I stayed up that night watching the news, while I was putting GT stickers on my train engines, and saw that we were the last segment on the news, and they only showed our display. Go figure! : )

Sunday, July 14th, 2002:

Sunday went off without a hitch, Tony and I arrived around 10:00, and got ready for another day. Excitement came from the film crew that was doing a documentary on passenger trains that filmed us yet again, and even an interview with Steve Ringe and Trevor Koleda, which was cool. Chris and I also wired the monorail through the train station, as we did not have time on Saturday to do so. We one 1st place again, even if there were some mis-communications about it.

We were the last ones out, mostly due to the fact we were in the back of the complex, and had to wait. It was faster than Novi, I think! All in all, we had a great display, with our new tables, multiple train loops, Mindstorms controlled trolley, auto-switches, a realistic downtown area, roundhouse, transfer table, auto-decouplers, etc. which makes it one great show. Thanks goes to everyone for a great turnout.

- Scott Sanburn

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