Bill, They also put fresh bulls out to pasture so they can do their
thing! However, I also feel like you with all the intense never-ending
heat that we have since the middle of June. It takes about two hours of
AC before the train room is below 85.
However I try to make a point of spending some time each night in the
train room. Sometimes it's only 15 minutes on some small chore, or an
hour running one of my yards. Since I got back from the convention I
spend a couple evening actually running my trains. I enjoy just
shifting out cars from some inbound train. Replacing the power and much
of the consist and sending it back out. In a couple of days it will
have arrived and I can do it all over again. Besides that I've built an
oil tank from a simple Bar Mills kit, last night I finished a coal
conveyor kit that Doug Peck sold me, during the weekend I also filled a
streamlined coach and observation car with passengers. I am also in the
middle of working on my SWM 4-4-2 that has lost a screw. So now it's
clean-up time and time to send my section crews out to walk the tracks
in search of one black screw!
With that in mind, I need to rig up a car that I can attach a magnet to
the floor to pick up such things. I'm not sure if a typical Kadee will
work or I do own a medical grade ceramic horseshoe style that I might be
able to fasten to the opening of my RR well hole car. Who knows what
vast treasures I might find in tunnels covered over twenty years ago!
Bob Werre
> "Do they put old S Gauger's out to pasture? Is that where Rollie is?"
>
> Funny that the above quote should show up today as I'm sitting on the old
> front porch thinking, why am I wasting my time up here when I could be
> model
> railroading? I read all the monthly Model railroad magazines, the Yahoo
> lists every day, and have this fairly good size model railroad to take
> care
> of.
>
> Plus, I have many, too many, boxes of model railroad stuff to build or to
> modify.
>
> I'm afraid I'm losing it!
>
> For some reason I just don't feel like it anymore, yet at my age 81 I
> still
> love to visit other layouts and love visiting my model railroading
> friends.
>
> I feel the main reason is that most all of my near-by model railroading
> friends have passed on and some have just plain quit, leaving me to
> fend all
> this on my own. Our LVSG club isn't the same anymore either and the
> monthly
> meeting drive is becoming a long one for me. I also wonder about all the
> writings on this list, how many just write and how many actually model
> railroad?
>
> Well, sorry, I felt like dumping on someone and I guess it was you all!
>
> "S"incerely,
>
> Bill (Fraley)
>
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>
>
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