Same here, I’m a one man band, I was lucky to get time for a hot lunch. Hopefully others will posts some pics, there are already some on MLS.
I was slow getting these pictures online but even though I didn’t get the crowd my wife Sara got Vic Smith’s Pizza layout and Bob Baxter’s Door Hollow Shortline.
The first is Vic’s pizza layout.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/doug_arnold/_forumfiles/Borracho.jpg)
This second photo is of the Door Hollow Shortline that Bob Baxter is part of.
Both Vic and Bob work hard on their layouts. Vic works by himself on the pizza layout and even though Bob Baxter’s layout is larger it is operated by a group of FOUR. They are both great layouts.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/doug_arnold/_forumfiles/shortline.jpg)
Thanks for the pictures and kind words, Doug. It was good to chat with you after your avatar gave you away.
Oh, there are lots of pictures on that other site.
Doug Arnold said:
I was slow getting these pictures online but even though I didn’t get the crowd my wife Sara got Vic Smith’s Pizza layout and Bob Baxter’s Door Hollow Shortline.
The first is Vic’s pizza layout.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/doug_arnold/_forumfiles/Borracho.jpg)
I see in the back ground is Mary & Bod Dean Checking it our… They from the Sacramento area and part of the SVGRS club. Nice to see some one we know made it down there.
Having missed the show from a blown shower valve in the bathroom wall, I ask did people meet 'n great each other?
My last count was Greg, Vic, Doug, John, Stan, Bob, and Donald attending. Were people at the Pizza by 11:00 AM and met?
Wendell
my buddy james, and our wives were there also. The Pizza layout should serve for future gatherings.
my buddy james, and our wives were there also. The Pizza layout should serve for future gatherings.
Lets hope next year I’m not in the same corner next to the clinic area. The lady holding the hot wire tool clinic, which turned out to be at the same time as the gathering, was complaining afterwords that the people in the back rows which were right next to the layout, could not hear her because we were getting a little too boisterous.
well, i will be politically correct. dang it
John she didnt say anything to me directly, but the following day she was telling her audience to sit up front as the day before the folks in the back row couldnt hear her. Oops!
Next year if I’m still in Siberia, we’ll have to reset the meet time not to coincide with any clinics, that was just an unfortunate coincidence this time around. But if the vendor complained to the organizer that the dam noisy crowds at that goofy layout were so loud that it affected her clinic, maybe next year I’ll get moved somewhere more advantages for such a “popular” attraction…and out of the Siberian corner.
If it gets really bad, we could probably find a corner in our space for you, we get 40 x 40 minimum and usually 40 x 60. We have an odd-shaped layout (no two the same) that allows lots of room around the periphery.
Greg
Well Greg, this has been my conversation with the OCC coordinator for the past two years.
Yes, its a very small layout, BUT its meant to be seen and walked around on all 4 sides. At 4’x4’ it is tiny but with the anti-kid ropes that makes it 7’x7’ and with a minimum of 4’ aisle walking space clear on each side, that gives a minimum clear area of 15’x 15’.
In my last location I had a 12’x12’ area but pushed the layout right out the limit line and set it at an angle to allow for walkway area behind, but even with all that people still tended to just walk up look at whatever side was facing the main aisle then walk on. Some people wouldn’t cross the blue tape line! Next year I am going to need directional arrows if I get stuck there again. The year before was perfect, I was in a gap between the Door Hollow and another layout and almost right in the middle of a wide aisleway, so people were funneled around all sides, that for me would be perfect again.
But that’s going to have to wait till next year. I’m waiting to see what the new management of the GTE does with Anaheim. BTW I was told Del Mar isn’t on the list of remaining shows this year 
next year i will bring a sign for the old folks to turn up their hearing aids
Right, no more shows this year apparently, no Del Mar, Anaheim is over, no Costa Mesa.
We’ll be doing some stuff down in San Diego, and one up in Palos Verdes.
Greg
Is the November Pomona large scale show a go this year?
Dave Schmitz said:
Is the November Pomona large scale show a go this year?
Don’t know, the gent who put on the show had a heart attack early last year, he posted he was feeling better and hoping to do the SWGRS for Nov of that year (2013) but he wasn’t well enough in time and he had to cancel the show. We haven’t heard anything for November of this year.
Have heard that he is definitely NOT doing the show.
Greg
Wow, so no more train shows period in socal until next year. That sucks.
There is an exhibit of layouts at the San Diego Railroad museum over july 4th, and a display over a month or so with various layouts in LA in the main library…
a small one at palos verdes, but no shows with vendors.
Greg
Thanks Greg, that’s what I figured. GTE has a new operator, so it remains to be seen what changes may follow, Del Mar got axed, been told that was kinda expected, but Anaheim has always been a big attendance show, so it should be back next January.