From: editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >if you have a story or antidote about one or all of these conventions, please contact us
Hi Ben... Not sure if this is an antidote for something bad, but it probable qualifies as an anecdote of something humorous. It is a true story and it took place at my RR open house which saw at least 300 people (maybe 350, not sure) pass through over a three-day period. Anyway, here is the story (antidote or anecdote or whatever): The young couple comes into the train room to visit the layout. The guy is obviously interested in the trains. The spouse is obviously interested in the scenery and backdrop paintings, but not the trains. The guy hangs around the engines. The young lady spots a stock car (built by Stan Furmanak) rolling along the track and also saw the cows inside the detailed interior. (Stan is quite a modeler in case you did not know.) So..........she asks me about the cows and how I got them into the stock car. Those of you who know me, know that my sense of humor can be a bit weird at times, so I answered her with a totally serious demeanor and perfectly straight face. I explained that cow balloons were used and carefully inserted through the slats and then inflated. The cow balloon umbilical was then glued shut, cut off, and the cow positioned with tweezers so that the evidence of it's umbilical cord was positioned toward the inside where it would not show. I explained this was the model railroader's equivalent to building a sail boat in a glass bottle. We train guys do this all the time. She was very impressed and immediately ran over to tell her husband of this new discovery. He just glared at me as he took his wife and left. Oh well, ya cannot win them all. I just hope he is not lurking on this list somewhere. Then there was the time someone (a non-model railroader) asked how in the world could I lay the track through those really small tunnel portals and lay it into the mountain and have it come out the other side. How could I possibly reach inside to position, spike, glue, ballast, and airbrush the track? Well, that is another story for another day. "S"leep well you guys...Ed L. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
