This past weekend's exhibit at the Bavarian Festival in Frankenmuth was a great success! Our European train display and layout was well received by the public, with lots of compliments and kind words. A few pictures from the layout are below. Please contact the ETEGL if you have questions about the layout or the chapter, or wish to invite us to your train show or European-themed event!
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![]() It's 2021, and the ETEGL is ready to return to normal! That's not to say we haven't made the most of the changes 2020 has brought. For example, our monthly chapter meetings have continued, with an average of more than a dozen members joining since July. The development of the new module specification continues, and we have set a date for launching the new layout: Frankenmuth Bavarian Festival in June 2022. We look forward to resuming our in-person lunches this summer (fingers crossed), as well as continuing the virtual meetings to allow members near and far to join. We also look forward to setting up an 'assembly line' to build the frames for our new modular layout. Please stay safe, and we look forward to being together again soon! Want to stay a part of the ETEGL newsgroup? Trying to find us on Yahoo Groups? Well, with Yahoo announcing the end of Yahoo Groups we have moved the chapter email server to groups.io.
If you would like to join us at groups.io, please follow this link to enroll.
Our virtual meetings take place on the first Saturday of the month at noon, lasting about an hour. We are open to presentations by our members, so please reach out if you have a topic you'd like to present, whether it's a layout tour, a pictorial of your trip across the Alps on the Albula line, or my personal favorite, a slideshow entitled 'KOPLOPERS IN ACTION'.
ETEGL members, keep an eye on your email inbox for call-in and log-in information for our next monthly get-together. We hope to see you in an upcoming Zoom meeting soon!
We will be using this new virtual format for the foreseeable future. On the bright side, it gives all our remote members the opportunity to join us. The service we have chosen is the popular ZOOM. If you are not familiar with ZOOM and need to install it on your phone, tablet or computer, a detailed set of instructions is available here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697
We look forward to seeing everyone again on Saturday at noon! ![]() The Taj Mahal. The Arc de Triumph. The World's Biggest Ball of Twine. These destinations pale in comparison to the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan when the Great Train Show is in town. That goes double when the Great Lakes Chapter of ETE is exhibiting their H.O. scale European-themed layout. Come out and see us the weekend of February 22-23, 2020 and enjoy trains galore! You can even get a discount on admission by ordering your admission ticket on their website: http://trainshow.com/novi/ We look forward to seeing you there! |
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