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BayLUG Meeting, January 2005 in Woodside

BayLUG member Dave Porter generously opened his doors to hold a BayLUG meeting at his home in January.

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BayLTC Museum Show, December 2004

Last December, BayLUG and BayLTC put on a display at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, CA. This was our second long-term exhibit, after the one in Pleasanton in June of 2004. Here are pictures taken both during and during tear-down after the show.

I took the pictures taken during the teardown phase while suffering from a terrible fever and flu, so I don’t remember much about it! But the pictures speak for themselves anyway…

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Great American Train Show, November 2004

On November 27-28, 2004, we participated in the GATS in Pleasanton for the third time. We won third place again!

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BayLTC “Dress Rehearsal” Meeting, November 2004

My digital camera troubles continue at this meeting. This time I brought it, but with three sets of nearly-flat batteries. I only managed to get 5 pictures.

This meeting was held at Bruce’s church gymnasium as a “dress rehearsal” for the next weekend’s Great American Train Show display.
We set up the tables and track along with major landmarks to make sure that it all fits.

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BayLUG Meeting, October 2004 in Fremont

I forgot my digital camera when I went to this meeting, so I took pictures with my cell phone instead. Apologies for the poor quality.

This meeting featured a Halloween contest as well as several space and Technic models not shown before.

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BayLTC Museum Show, July 11, 2004 (tear-down)

Turn out the lights, the party’s over…

Sunday, July 11 was the last day of our month-long display at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society and Museum. After the museum closed at 4pm, we took down the “sneeze guards” and table skirts for a photo shoot, culminating in a group photo.

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BayLTC Museum Show, July 3, 2004 (parade)

For the penultimate weekend of our month-long display at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society and Museum, we put together a 4th of July Parade. Only problem is, the museum is closed on the 4th. However, I took these pictures on the 3rd:

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BayLTC Museum Show, June 26, 2004 (new models added)

These pictures, taken two weeks after the opening of our month-long exhibit at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society and Museum, show some of the models added during that time.

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BayLTC Museum Show, June 12, 2004 (post-setup)

BayLTC was invited to put on a display at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society and Museum.

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BayLUG Meeting, May 2004 in Fremont

A number of new creations were unveiled, including many for
BayLTC‘s train layout.

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Train Collectors Association Show, March 2004

The Train Collectors Assocation had their “Cal-Stewart Spring Meet” convention at the Santa Clara Convention Center on March 27-28, 2004, and BayLTC was invited to display our layout in the vendors’ hall.

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Great American Train Show, February 2004

On February 28-29, 2004, we returned to the site of our first GATS, the Cow Palace near San Francisco. We got a third place ribbon.

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BayLUG Meeting, December 2003 in Fremont

This was our last meeting of the year, where members brought their latest creations for display.

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BayLTC Meeting, June 2003 in Newark

This meeting was held in Bruce’s church gym. The meeting was a planning meeting for the July San Mateo GATS show.
We planned and practiced setting up our layout so that we wouldn’t have big problems at GATS, like we had in the past.

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Great American Train Show, July 2003

Pictures from the Great American Train Show, July 19-20, 2003, at the San Mateo Expo Center in San Mateo, CA. Our layout won second place in the contest!

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BricksWest 2003

Pictures taken at the Legoland Test Track Diner (the Grand Pavilion was flooded) during the setup on Friday.

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Great American Train Show, November-December 2002

Pictures from the Great American Train Show, November 30-December 1, 2002, at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, CA. Our layout won first place in the contest!

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BayLTC Meeting, November 2002 in Newark

This meeting was held at the Newark campus of Ohlone Community College. They generously allowed us the use of their auditorium to set up our layout in preparation for the GATS show at the end of the month.

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BayLUG Meeting, September 2002 in Fremont

After a trains-focused summer, BayLUG returned to more general meetings.

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Great American Train Show, August 2002

Pictures from the Great American Train Show, August 10-11, 2002, at the Cow Palace near San Francisco, CA. Our layout won third place in the contest.

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BayLTC Meeting, August 2002 in Newark

Held the weekend before the train show, this was our last chance to get everything right.

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BayLTC Meeting, July 2002 in Newark

This was a rehearsal meeting for the coming train show.

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BayLUG Meeting, June 2002 in Fremont

At this meeting we had a contest for town vehicles, in which I had seven entries.

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