January 30, 2010 – 10:24 pm
I have been using TrackDraw for layout planning for years. My friend and former NCLTC member Cary Clark wrote TrackDraw and I authored many of the parts in the TrackDraw library so I had a vested interest in using it. Compared to TrackDesigner, TrackDraw was a huge improvement particularly if you were planning a [...]
February 3, 2009 – 11:11 am
The News and Observer had a brief write up on Friday’s (1/30) edition letting people know that LEGOPalooza was being held at Morehead Planetarium over the weekend. The article featured a picture from the 2005 LEGOPalooza.
Monday morning’s (2/2) edition of the N&O didn’t have an article but did have this picture from the show. As [...]
February 3, 2009 – 10:54 am
A plethora of photos taken at LEGOPalooza last weekend have been uploaded to various photo sharing sites. To make it easier to keep track of them all, here is a list of links in no particular order.
Photos
Gareth Bowler’s photos on Brickshelf
Joe Meno’s photos on Flickr
Mike Walsh’s photos on Flickr (set #1)
Mike Walsh’s photos on Flickr [...]
February 2, 2009 – 12:02 pm
I got to Morehead just before the doors opened on Sunday afternoon to find a long line of people waiting to get in. The word was out! The crowd was heavy all day long until an announcement was made that the Chapel Hill Police were towing cars on Franklin Street! From that point on the [...]
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 [...]