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Good Morning All: Fla/Phil; AntonioFP45; Dave: Do ya'll remember "Greek History"? The god of wind is Mariah and the way to appease the god was to offer a virgen to be burned at the stake. I think that you guys had better think about this idea. My prayers are with all of you Floridians and I hope and pray that everyone comes through this third disaster OK. Everthing I see about this storm is bad. Ed: I thought it was "Don McNeill Breakfast Club". Are you trying to see how old we are and how the memory is holding up? I remember "Big John and Sparky"; "The Creaking Door"; "The Phantum" and of course "The Lone Ranger". The LR was brought to you by Marrieta Bread and it developed a fondness for the Overture of 1812 that I still enjoy after all these many years. I built a several of these structures when I couldn't afford to build a layout because the kids were requiring all of the money. (You've been there.) On the ground throws - don't make the mistake that I made and get the ones without the contacts. The ones with the contacts are the way to go, that give the power two ways to go 1)through the rail points and 2) throught the contacts on the caboose ind. switch. I also like using the "spring" set as I don't have to worry about setting up the throw. You will still have an advantage over my layout building even with my built up structures because you know that I'm going to lay the track at least three times. John: What kind of van do you have, I've got a Dodge Grand Caravan. It's going to be full when we leave Texas, on out trip, as Mrs. "T" already has laid out three seasons of clothes. From the pile, you'd think that we were moving instead of just going on vacation. I've been working on cars since I was in Jr High School. I only do the simple stuff now as I don't like to do the hard stuff. One of the reasons that I got into the bus business was I liked working on the big equipment. Now that the kids are gone "the borrowers" don't take as much. I used to be able to find all of the wrenches that fit a bicycle - just start up the power lawn mower and go across the yard. Wasn't to good on the blade but they didn't care. "What goes around, comes around" now the grandkids do it to them. HA HA HA Noah; jhhtrainsplane: NMRA is worth its weight in gold. Look at what they have done for the hobby. When I got into the hobby their were about eight to ten different brands of couplers and most of my rolling stock had one coupler on one end and another brand on the other end. It was the only way we could take cars from one layout to the other. Then it was so expensive that we didn't have enough cars for two trains so not only did you take your loco but also our train to another persons layout. You also get "Scale Rails" which give you another side of the hobby from MR and RMC. You'll meet a lot of nice guys (non gender) to get and give advice. I've been a member off and on for over fifty years. CJM89: You mean to tell me that that little blob on the HO box cars actually has writing in it! Enjoy reading it while you can becuase "it ain't always gonna be that way". I thing that I'm gonna go upstairs and work on that control panel as Ed is getting more do then I am. Ya'll have a blessed day and remember - WHAT? SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob Hey ED. that "preview" button is nice. THANKS
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