“Tom, I would like you to start working on engines that you took out of commission because they didn’t work. They all need to be fixed by the 14th.”
No parts on hand. No budget for parts or materials. I’m also finishing rebuilding all the track in the west side and the new rodeo diorama.
I guess I missed the point. But, if someone made that “proclamation”, you need to tell them to get real.
I sure hope that it was your paying job boss that gave the command. Now that would be really sweet to get to be paid regular salary to fix his trains.
…and after you stopped chuckling?
Just say they’ll be done by the 14th. The 14th of never.
Just hand the idgit a list of the parts and materials needed, along with a statement of your labor rate for “rush” jobs, and watch what happens.
When you are done there, my whole layout needs elevating.
By the Christmas show.
Well?
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What did you say?
I’ve finally stopped grumbling. Grumbling is the autistic response to such a message.
So, here we are, Thursday before the open house Saturday. A big piece of the railroad hasn’t had a train running on it since June. What am I doing? Building a rodeo diorama. “You know, the railroad will look fine if there’s not a new Wild West Show going on, but the Wild West Show might look a little funny if the trains aren’t running.” Apparently, the owner doesn’t think his trains are that high a priority. I’ll post a picture when I get it done.
We did get the tiles put in a friend’s office in time for HIS open house.
You know, this “acrylic tile mastic,” has some nice properties as an adhesive. I bet we could use this to…
Yippee yi Yay!
Carry on little buckaroo!
I hope that cheered you up … and on.
John
John Caughey said:
Yippee yi Yay!
Carry on little buckaroo!
I hope that cheered you up … and on.
John
Oh! You should have seen the cute little boy at the Burger King yesterday. Cowboy hat, boots, shirt, his cap gun stuck in his belt. I greeted him, “‘Owdy, pardner! Lookin’ fer some grub?” Yes, I find myself in my mid 50’s asking the important questions in life such as, “Do you want cheese on your whopper?”
Tom, what is the problem? The trains ran on that track, the last time he ran them on that track. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Well. Late Friday night, I had a train to run in each main section 2 spare locos working in case something happened and Thomas to run now and then to amuse the kids. This morning, I had 4 locos that refused to run. Well, Thomas got to run all day, and after some fiddling, I got one of the others to run.
Mostly a track powered layout, but he’s converting to battery slowly. 2 of the miscreant locos are battery powered.
The RS3 with my battery plugged into the rear connector ran like a champ, and this little PICO engine that everybody says is cheap junk Sully never should have bought both ran beautifully all day. So did the trolly, Thomas and track powered Shay. The ill-behaved locos were 2 battery powered Dash 9’s a track powered Dash 9 and a track powered Mikado. All except the trolly, the PICO loco and the Shay have revolutions in them. After some fiddling and colorful metaphores, one of the battery Dash 9’s ran nicely until the battery went dead. The other battery Dash 9 keeps going into overload. The track powered Dash 9 just stops, still has the lights on, says Link OK, but refuses to go. Mikado keeps loosing power.
That little pico loco is quite a runner. I like it. Has nice detail, nice proportions and, when I set it on the track, it ALWAYS works.
After some frustration this morning, 6 trains ran most of the afternoon, till the working battery Dash 9 ran down, then 5 trains ran. Sully says his focus now is to convert the rest of the revolution locos to battery.
