Andy Clarke said:It takes you that long to recover from getting up in the morning. :D
It was a great weekend..... Probably take a week to recover....... :)
Geoff George said:I resemble that remark...Andy Clarke said:It takes you that long to recover from getting up in the morning. :D
It was a great weekend..... Probably take a week to recover....... :)
I had a GREAT weekend. Tom Ruby got my ebay Climax working, and programed the controller for me, I learned some about battery and wiring, and found a side door caboose I had wanted for a long time. We just can’t a show like that !
Here we go - This is Addie Siddle running her Dad’s train.
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While other kids watched trains run on Scott Fowler’s carpet layout
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People enjoyed the comraderie from 0630 in the morning until 10 pm at night.
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Bob Temper and crew worked on the new backdrops for the modules
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Here is a night shot of the new backdrop at Doc’s circus module.
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Lots of people came in to enjoy the antics of our club.
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I had people, young and old, helping with the new switching puzzle.
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There were formal clinics on battery power and radio control.
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And new club members got advice from the older members.
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And everybody enjoyed the trains running.
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After 7 years of putting on this event our club probably got the greatest compliment we could ever have. We had someone from out of town compare our event to the live steamers Diamondhead. Now I’ve been to Diamondhead and we’ve got a long way to go to achieve that status, but the intended compliment was certainly well received.
Next year’s event is February 12 - 14, 2010, mark your calendars and make your plans now.
Jan takes nice pictures…!!!
Tks for the photos… Very nice and looks like a lot of fun been had… Noel
I seem to have been too busy playing trains to take pictures. (About 10 MB) http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/movie.wmv
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Zachary, Jan and Andy.
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This little boy looks so much like my Ethan at that age.
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Preparing for a seminar: “How to take a loco apart 17 times and still not have it work.” They figured we all do that so often, we might as well know how to do it well.
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Life of the party.
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Zachary.
Good video, Tom. Thanks for including.
From what I’ve seen over the years in the photos, the compliment is well deserved.
Thanks for the video Tom …first year I did not go and someone is operating C&EI rolling stock ?
Was there someone there with C&EI cars available ? WHO ?
Was it in the video?
You’ll have to look up Larry Tennyson. His son Fred custom decals cars and they are most beautiful. I was pulling 11 of them around mixed in with my own. I’m wondering what an “Asylum Valley N&D” box car would look like.
Tom,
Nice pics and videos. Thanks.
GGRC Members,
Lots of dedication and hard work made this happen. Kudos. Looks like a good club.
Did anyone notice the wheel hops of the second train on the video? I’m guessing it was coming out of a siding.
(In Scrubs-JD fashion I see a scale MOW crew speeding down the track.)
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Yes, there are a couple rough spots in the track. Some of the modules need some work.
My fairly heavy loco and cars had no trouble.
Joe,
That siding goes into the J. Allen Switching Yard. There is a 2 inch piece of ever so slightly curved rail with a split jaw rail clamp on each end. Between the St.Charles Train Show and the Carlyle Winter Meet, I pulled this rail to make an adjustment to the insulated split jaw rail clamp by putting a plastic spacer between the two brass movable parts of the rail clamp. As I said, this piece of rail has a very slight curve. When putting it back together, I inadvertantly turned it around. When tearing down after the Carlyle Winter Meet, this was corrected. Hopefully, that bump won’t be there the next time. When assembling the modules it is hard to go back and make a correction in mid setup. The problem is that, as now scheduled, the layout will not be assembled again until Thanksgiving weekend in November. If I fixed it, the bump won’t be noticed or even remembered, if it is still there, we will go to “Plan B”. No idea what “Plan B” is at this time. 
Plan “B” = think of a Plan “C”…
Plans? I NEVER make plans.
There’s also quite a bobble in the module next to the bridge where the module sags.
Tom, if you watch a train run, there’s quite a few ““Bobbles”” in the track, from module, to module…
I have another video that shows…