Re: GATS

["jas e. smiley" <bj.smiley1@juno.com>]

response  from jas.e.smiley 03.05.02 We are  generating more things than
the trailer can hold . i think we should be looking and talking about
storage and transporting space and there relayted costs.
the kids will love the stools outside to stand up on and  play jungle jim
activities when thomas is running the mothers will welcome the stools to
sit with there little guys to watch thomas. 

it appears that we have 4 members signed on  03.14,15,16.03 for the fun
run. i hope to work on my corner module power problem when i take a break
form the circus set up thursday. there is a problem with blue and green
that may be in that module also.

when i turn over a powered up track to the next runner waiting ,  i
always tell the next  person the power settings  convential  or modern. 
this is to prevent  run away train operation. 
when i was in grade school , i  kept 2 interspring mattressat the end to
the ping pong table to break the fall of the lionel engines. i was not so
l,ucky in Austin when i sent a lionel #248  6 feet down to the garage
floor. i lost a lionel #
 736 to the concrete floor at a show when it somehow turned a 45 degree
crossover into a 45 d switch

Ed  grabbed one of my GG-1's at his house and prevented a flight thru the
air with the greatest of ease. Recently he was out of possition to repeat
the air fligh catch of one of his engines.
FUN RUN 03.15,16.02 BCE
 I will spot the trailer around 3 pm thursday 03.14,03  and begin to
assemble my 2- 2'x4' ,2-4'x4' , my metal Lionel hell -gate bridge on a
1'x4' circus modules and a 2'x8' circus train storage yard

friday i plan to be at the club house at 3 p.m.  on.

sat run 10 to 1 pm followed by the take down and storing the trailer.
Bostel will your mainline module be ready for approval before  we set up
? 
I ceritfy that none of the above are necessarly politically correct !
comments anyone ? 
joe, will your 10 modules be ready lock up at this bce run ?Bye,    bj.1


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:46:06 EST Bostet@aol.com writes:
> A couple of followup comments.
> 
> Jon Weinstein came buy on Sat and commented on how much the layout 
> had 
> improved in appearance and excitement.  A comment like that from Jon 
> carries 
> a lot of credibility.
> 
> I still believe there is some power loss (at least on track 1) near 
> the swamp 
> corner.  My trains continually slowed there after coming by Scott's 
> module's. 
>  They seemed to be back up to speed by the oil derrick.
> 
> We must add Plexiglas to the corner's.  The Reynolds's are the 
> latest to have 
> a negative experience.  Let's not have another train hit the floor.
> 
> There isn't anyway to see the track starting with Scott's modules 
> thru the 
> Swamp and down to Adrian's oil fields.  Let's either leave a sky 
> board out or 
> create some type of a gap so we can see that our trains are running 
> properly 
> or stalled.
> 
> Consider purchasing (used is OK), four tall bar stools (with backs) 
> to place 
> outside of the layout and the bollards for operators. This allows 
> operators 
> to better see what is going on with their trains, creates better 
> opportunities to visit with viewers, and for some of us helps save 
> the back.
> 
> The GATS show was weak but we looked great!
> 
> Bob Stettner
> ------
> TTAT members reflector.

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