{"id":556,"date":"2013-06-24T20:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T01:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallmodelrailroads.wordpress.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-06-24T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T01:09:49","slug":"so-many-trains-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/so-many-trains-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Trains, So Little Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. My time has been very limited over the last month. Between work, family and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/smalllayoutdesignmeet2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Layout Design Meet<\/a>\u00a0I have had little time for my own train ambitions. As a result it has been a month since my last post. On the good side, I have made it a policy to never let more than a month go by without a post and publishing this post ensures that I have not failed on that goal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/smalllayoutdesignmeet2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Layout Design Meet<\/a> was very much a success and it looks like another is in store for 2014. As part of the event, everyone took a turn telling about there layout\/subject they brought to the meet. The format for next year will most likely be very similar and at the same location. My only regret was that I did not bring my good camera and I did not take enough pictures and notes about everyone&#8217;s layouts. What I was able to catch is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/smalllayoutdesignmeet2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Layout Design Meet web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at the meet made time to take a ride on the live steam railway at the museum. The photo below is a group photo with many of the attendees at the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"580\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/so-many-trains-so-little-time\/groupphoto\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,597\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GroupPhoto\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-580\" alt=\"GroupPhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto.jpg?w=600\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/groupphoto-624x465.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to give a very big thanks to everyone who attended and a special thanks to those who helped out setting up, taking down and prodding me along to make sure the event happened!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. My time has been very limited over the last month. Between work, family and the Small Layout Design Meet\u00a0I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-on-small-layouts","wpcat-2-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_2067.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e6yk-8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":864,"url":"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/2014-small-layout-design-meet\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":0},"title":"2014 Small Layout Design Meet","author":"Marshall Stull","date":"June 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Small Layout Design Meet has concluded and was fun for all. 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