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SoundTraxx is showing (hearing?) off an early engineering sample of their GE Turbine Sound in the Tsunami2. Give it a listen -

With a number of great suggestions and plenty of time to modify the design, I have taken another look and made some changes to the plan. Overall its still basically the same, but moving a few turnouts, modifying the track plan, adding a couple of sidings has given me even more to utilize when operations begin.

Thanks to all who made the suggestions. Its always welcome.

I'm getting Day 5 started early, since today, for the vendors at least, the National Train Show begins. We'll be heading over to the Orange County Convention Center for a "First Look" at where we'll be sort of living until Sunday evening.

From what I was told, someone made a good decision in having the modular layouts start coming in yesterday, giving them more time to get set up and debugged, as well as cutting down (hopefully) on the traffic crush that always occurs during load-in.

Day 4.... time keeps slipping away, and in this case, tomorrow will be the start of National Train Show prep. It seems the week has hardly started, and yet it's already showing signs of drawing to a close.

No Celebration Room photos today - it was closed for judging.

The Greater Nickel Plate is at the point where I am working on small details. One of the problems I am encountering is the lack of people with appropriate gestures etc. I note many photos of scenes here and wonder "where did they get that figure?" Searching catalogs and websites produces mainy "standard" people in positions that are close, but no cigar.

Day 3 - I woke up to a bleeping (in both senses of the word) alarm clock at 7:30am, got through my morning routine and climbed on my computer. You saw the results in the second part of my Day 2 post. Heading downstairs, I realized that I had missed the one clinic I had planned to attend this morning. Instead I spent it going over the Op Session photos with Bruce Notman and Bruce Metcalf, as we tried to figure out the names of some of the people in them.