The Roundhouse Festival in Evanston, WY is this weekend! We’ll be there with a LEGO layout. See this post for more information.

We had a great turnout at Saturday’s ULUG meeting. We all had a great time dividing up our 60 lb. eBay lot after Jason kindly spent the last few months sorting it. I showed everyone the website and we talked about picture hosting, ads on the site, and setting up an IRC channel (chat room) for ULUG. Spencer got it set up:

Server: irc.irchighway.net
Channel: #utahlug

We also finalized the layout for the upcoming Evanston display. Two new members came and bought into the lot of bricks, Nick and George. Welcome to the group, guys!

There will not be a normal meeting in August due to the train show in Evanston. Spencer will be hosting the next meeting in September.

We’ll be holding our monthly meeting on July 21 at 4:00 PM. Jason will be hosting it at his home in Kaysville. We bought a 60 lb. lot of on eBay a while back that we will be dividing up between several of us. We’ll also be talking about the upcoming Evanston show. Directions were sent out to the ULUG Google Group. See you there!

June’s ULUG meeting was held at Spencer’s brother’s house in Highland, UT on 6/16/07.

Here’s what we covered-

Meeting Schedule:

• Month - Host
• July - Jason
• August – Evanston Train Show
• September – Spencer
• October – Bill
• November – Train Show
• December – Reed
• January 2008 – Train Show
• February – Train Show
• March – Train Show

Other Items:

• Get business cards from Reed’s wife
• Isaac will send out links to the website
• Ideas for billboards, get clear sticker paper for laser printer
• Brian will order 17 48 x 48 stud baseplates for LUG with money from Jamborall
• Buy utahlug.org domain name
• Post phone numbers on newsgroup

We will be participating in another model train show in August 2007 in Evanston, Wyoming. We’ll have 320 square feet to fill with LEGO models, which will make for a great display. This is going to be a show you don’t want to miss.

The show will be held August 4-5 at the Historic Roundhouse and Railyards at 1440 Main Street, Evanston, WY. More info will be posted in coming weeks.

The show is part of the 10th annual Roundhouse Festival.

ULUG will be meeting today at 2:00 PM at Jordan Neve’s house (directions here).

Agenda:

• Review the website
• Pick-a-Brick (organized by Spencer)
• MOCs
• Organizational positions

The March 2007 ULUG meeting was held at Brian Pilati’s house from 10:00 am to 1:00 am on Saturday, March 17.

We covered the following topics:

• Review of new MOCs, techniques or plans
• TrackDraw/TrackDesigner software
• City Modularity Standard
• LEGO cleaning
• Badge ordering
• Using Bricklink, Peeron, etc.

It was a great meeting, thanks to everyone who contributed and especially to Brian and his family for letting us come to their home!

ULUG participated in the Hostlers 2007 Model Railroad show at the Union Station in Ogden Utah on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th. It was a great show! We have some new members that came and helped, Spencer Fuller and David Nuttall . Spencer brought a massive LEGO Monorail layout that really added to the layout. No pictures have been uploaded to the Internet yet, I’ll post an update when we have some.

Photos from our last show at Thanksgiving Point are online! Each link below has a seperate gallery of photos from the show.

 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=230676

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=230434

The next GBLT&C/ULUG train show display is coming right up! It will be at the Great Train Expo at the Utah State Fairgrounds. Find more information at the Great Train Expo website.

We will have a 50′ by 50′ area with a great layout! Don’t miss it! On a side note, the ad for the show in today’s Deseret Morning News and the GTE website specifically mention the LEGO layout.