The NETCA Show in Marlboro Mass, March 2003.

For the 2003 NETCA show seven members volunteer to display a small layout for NELUG.
The layout that we came up with is 6'8" by 10'. At one end is an amusement park 
that takes up 1/3 of the layout.  The amusement park includes 6 working rides and 
two that are for show.  At the other end of the layout is a town that took up the
remaining 2/3 of the layout.  Some of its highlights are a large 1800's factory
building that packages LEGO sets, a four story warehouse building that has been
converted into a bank on the first floor and a night club on the top floors, a 
high rise building that is 4' tall, and a road crew that is laying asphalt and end
up flattening a worker in the process.  Each section of the layout is connected by
a large loop running around the edge of the layout and a smaller loop that circles 
the town.  On the outer loop we ran a Sante Fe train with a custom built B car.  We
also let the old 7722 battery powered train run the loop once.  It was on display at
the amusement park's station.  On the inner loop we ran a custom built freight train
that has a pin hole camera in the cock pit.  A monitor was placed under the table for
the vistors to watch.  The most exciting part to was the s-curve between the park
and the factory.

This show is always a rush to set up and take down, but I love seeing what we can do
in such a short time frame.

Jonathan Dallas