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Ill be there around noon Sunday with my modulars and winter village sets and can help finish any setup. Ill have about 12 32×32 baseplates worth.
Dates and Times have been updated after talking with Laura. Please sign up as as you might know if you can cover a shift. This is a very big event for us with a lot of exposure over 4 weekends and it’s a lot of fun in an amazing facility.
The biggest change is the start time being 9AM instead of 10 like for Fall Trolley. The first trolley rolls out at 8:30AM so it’s back to the station around 9:15 so having the Winter display up and running before then is important.
Also, cup credits have been updated per Laura’s suggestion along with removing this coming Thursday’s (Thanksgiving Day) shift.
How’d set up go yesterday?
@thoga1109 you planning to pull super man duty on weekdays? No pressure, just trying to plan for our needs@joshhall setup went really well! Got everything situated with the track overall, tables nicely lined up and a good idea for what stuff will go where. The rest should be completed today.
finally figured out my schedule and signed up for Black Friday and the 3 Thursdays, sorry I can’t do more, extremely busy time of the year
@thoga1109 as always you do plenty and it’s all so appreciated! Thank you!
@joshhall quick question on shifts: I setup all day for Winter Trolley on the weekends to have 2 max but there are 3 signed up for today. Is it supposed to only allow 2 to sign up automatically or do I have to lock it after 2 have signed up so no more can sign up?
It should have prevented anyone else from signing up once it’s reached its max. The only exception should be admins/owner of the event…I’ll have to check for bugs. I know it used to work. I’d keep anyone signed up for now though to maintain encouraging staffing. Josh’s mistakes means the members benefit!
Winter Trolley 2025Nov 22, 2025 – Dec 21, 2025Pennsylvania Trolley MuseumOpenSetup, 4 standard Winter Trolley weekends (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and tear-down on the 21st.
Created by Jonathan Wagner Overview Participation Cups [View Shifts] [Forum] [I-Spy] Shifts: 35 (Open 29, Locked 6)
Empty Shifts: 16
Participants: 14Total cups allotted (current signups): 94.5 fixed the bug! Thanks for reporting it. When I added in the feature to create ‘generic’ shifts that were not restricted to using dates/times, I broke the sign up button.
I see we need some people to staff tomorrow and Saturday.
any pictures of the display? OneBurgh, on facebook, has been featuring people’s train displays – https://www.facebook.com/PittsburghPA and I thought we should send some pictures in.
Kristin and I will be there for Saturday afternoon.
I have posted several videos on Instagram of the display…2 of them reached over 10k views!
got this in from Kristen:
Hi!
During our staff meeting, the question came up about when the layout will be up through! We have our volunteer Christmas dinner right after the last Santa Trolley on Dec 21.
For the first time, the museum is open between Christmas and the New Year, so everyone was wondering if LUG would be willing to keep the layout up those days. I understand that’s a whole staffing issue, so I totally understand if not, but I told everyone I would ask!
Thanks so much,
what do you all think?
I don’t see why we can’t tear down on the 1st. We wouldn’t be as rushed to get everything torn down.
I would think with the kids being off school and many adults taking thus week off it will be very busy.
Just to go on record I am out that week, too many family obligations.Kristin and I will be in Florida for the week between Christmas and New Year’s so unless we can do it remotely, we can’t staff. We also probably won’t be back by the 1st so our stuff can just sit in our boxes in the back if that works.
so unless we can do it remotely, we can’t staff.
I move that the LUG buy a camera that ties into an app / wifi-enabled monitor and has speaker functionality (like the baby monitor we have in my son’s room) and give the monitor to Jonathan & Kristin, so if someone messes with the display or tries to steal anything, they can push a button and the guilty party will hear a tinny voice going “hey, don’t do that!”
But seriously:
What exactly are the hours and days we need to cover if we commit to the extended display? You guys are talking about teardown on New Years Day (a Thursday), but their site says they’re closed that day (which doesn’t necessarily mean we can’t tear down then…)
From their Hours section on that page, it looks like we’re talking an additional three-day weekend, but no other days; is that correct?
Fri 12/26 9-5
Sat 12/27 9-5
Sun 12/28 9-5I would say that while I support the idea in theory, I see a lot of red in the shift sign-up even through the current commitment of Sun 12/21. I’d rather we not commit to even more shifts unless we have strong commitments from enough LUG members to guarantee coverage on the days between Christmas and New Years. Better to under-promise and over-deliver than to over-promise and under-deliver, don’cha know?
I personally might be able to sneak in a shift at some point but can’t commit to anything until I see how the family holiday plans shape up.
I went through and put in some staffing. I was originally supposed to be away December 14th-23rd but that doesnt look like its happening. If I have more free time pop up in that week I will sign up to staff.
In regard to leaving it up, I am in favor of it. Would they let us leave it up until its time for the train display at the science center? Seems to be a situation similar to TUBS.
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