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Well. I had to walk away from that post and decide if I was offended or not. However be that all chips fall where they will, I think that the topic of train-show behavior and personality traits should go onto it's own thread. I dont want to elaborate with my take on the trainshow stuff without totally wrecking this thread.At the recent show in Pine Bluff I over heard one of the operators admonish another "Slow down." That operator had his head deep into the DT400 he was holding with total concentration. That would not be a good time to say "HI! My name is SV! Whatcha doing?" If he loses the train mentally and gets distracted bad things happen.Also it can be difficult for someone to pull out a crown jewel worth a kings ransom for a few laps at the show. A few oohs and aahs later it goes back into the box. I feel that if you bring something to show, run it for all to see. If it gets broke.. well... you dont have a heart issue do ya?Now the people that comes to the show cannot get off scot free either. Some folks dont understand the true cost of some of the higher dollar equiptment and just how much money is literally rolling down the track. Let's say a 400 dollar engine or engines towing 20 cars at up to 40 dollars apeice retail. **taps calculator... that is 1200 dollars rolling on that track driven by another few hundreds or thousand more dollars in associated control system. the list goes on but you get my idea. The structures can be expensive and the scenery is 5 dollars a shake bottle out of what you get sometimes.I think that if there is adequate insurance for shows, there should be no problem.. except that these products are one off- limited run- OOP never will be made again and in some cases like Life Like, bought out and no longer in existance except with a totally different support system.No wonder the show people are nervous like a teaser at a foaling barn.The public might go to walmart and buy a trainset and run it for an afternoon, decide that nothing works and pick up something else to do.Tell me again about what people think and do at shows one more time please.
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