Hi boB Same goes for transporting layouts. I trust the fates and the good of the public. I don't swaddle my modules in plywood coffins, I just use end plates to stack em and protect the ends of the rails. Over 2-dozen shows the only damage I've ever incurred has been a few minor bumps and scrapes carrying them up and down our narrow basement steps. My fault, not my wife who has better spatial awareness. I did have some trees shake loose and the lock washers actually spun off my switch machine toggles on that violent trailer ride to Milwaukee a few years back, but that's it.
Getting back to the public and our stuff...at a show here in Canada a few years back, a guy who was my age, in other words old enough to know better, was poking my trees and structure details while showing off to his wife. I politely asked him not to touch to which he replied while still poking away, "But some things HAVE to be touched". To which I replied "NO THEY DON'T SIR"! One does meet all kinds in this hobby. Cheers Jim Martin > On August 14, 2013 at 9:30 AM shabbona_rr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I assured the operator that "if I could build it, I could repair it, which I > did. Same with a RRM NW-2 that suffered a similar disaster when a display case > hit the deck face down > > boB Nicholson __________________________________________________ > >
