Dan, good luck with your visitors. Sometimes all you need is something
like that to get motivated. May everything run in the right direction
and remain on the rails!
In the Houston area, our NMRA Division 8 is having it's yearly business
meeting, picnic and running session with the Houston Live Steamers.
They have a fairly long run and every year they add to it.
They have an actual operating session in two weeks also. In this case
you will be walking some distance and the only things you need to bring
are work gloves and a flexible back. Most trains are way freights so
throwing switches and cutting cars is the norm. Luckily they haven't
gotten to the point of actually dealing with loads yet. There is also a
chest high G gauge setup where some members are using live steam or
battery powered locomotives generally controlled by model airplane
control units--they seem to be happy just to get things running.
After returning home, I've got to crawl around the layout to find a
short. I had suspected the contacts on a switch machine, but I'm beyond
that now. I'm hoping it's just a closed gap--I don't have time for much
more investigating. I've got open house in mid November with some long
distance travel in the middle.
A couple of weekends back I dug out my video camera-those that are the
size of a miniature football! The darn thing wouldn't record and kept
saying "NO CARD". Well it has the capability of shooting stills to a
card, but I never use that feature. I finally found out the actual tape
was full--duhh! but it could have said: TAPE FULL--I could figure that
out! I down-loaded the entire tape to my computer only to find some
stuff shot years ago. Three or four trainshows, and some of my layout.
The ones of my layout were interesting in that several of the featured
items have been sold, and some structures have been moved to new
locations. It's almost like going back to visit a 1:1 railyard and
discovering things have changed.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 10/10/13 10:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
My Friday Night Fun this week will take place early, from 2pm to 5pm,
when my layout will be open for the Mid-East Region NMRA convention.
The convention is being held in Rockville, MD from now through Sunday.
Dan Vandermause
Ellicott City, MD
