Hi All, The Houston S Gaugers had another fantastic show this past weekend. We were set up at one of the biggest and most popular malls in Houston, Texas. For most of us, the show started at 4 or 5am in the morning on Saturday, to try to make it for set-up at 6am. After 15 minutes trying to find a security guard to let us in, we had trains up and running by around 9am, plenty of time for the 10am opening. Turnout on Saturday was tremendous, probably because a lot of people were doing last-minute shopping for Father's Day. We ran trains from 10am until 9pm, when the mall turned off practically all lights (subtle hint it was time to go).
Sunday started at noon and we ran trains until 5:30pm. Turnout at first was light, but by mid-afternoon we had just about as many people as on Saturday. Lots of people interested in our layout, taking pictures and videos on their "iPhones", etc. Overall, things went well at the show. We had some minor electrical glitches first thing on Saturday, but they were solved before the show opened. From then on it was smooth sailing all day long. Sunday, however, was a bit different. I guess we were all tired from the day before. There were a number of rear-end collisions, several issues with shorts occurring on the layout. However, we had a blast! We even did a couple of sessions doing some switching work, which seemed to attract a nice-sized crowd. We were thinking last year that the audience might like to see some action other than trains constantly running in loops, and it seems we were right. Anyway, I just updated our club's web site where you can see photos of this weekend's show, including one video of the main line action. We pretty much ran four trains on the layout both days. To see the latest info, go to http://www.houstonSgaugers.org/ then click on "Events" then click on the first entry under "Past Events" titled "Father's Day weekend 2011". Note that you can click on any of the photos to see a much larger version. The bottom of the page has a link to the YouTube video. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
