A few weeks ago, I had played every video game I have, Read every GMR issue my grandparents gave me [without those, I don't think I would have survived this long] , read every book, and surfed to websites based from here to Hong Kong. As you can guess, I was bored [to death]. After adding to my list of products that could be useful for my layout, I came across a product in the weekly new product section from Lionel. I said to myself "what the heck" and went for a look at what was new.
After I looked around, I remembered my old Lionel set that Santa gave me. Who hasn't started out that way [if you would like to dispute this or give an instance of someone who hasn't started out that way, please do so]. I then got it in my head to go down stairs and set up the old Lionel.
After I had convinced my mom that this was needed as "Rehabilitation", I went down and started to set it up. I have the old Lionel O-27 track so It took the better part of a day [and that was before the injury]. When I completed a simple loop and siding I started the old Locomotive up.......... After fixing the electrical problems [I will spare you the details] , I cleaned the track, replaced the point, tightened the track, removed the hair from the Locomotives axels, removed the hair from the electrical pickups, cleaned my sisters legos up so the train could run on the track, and reconnected the controller. Remember, I did all of this with a broken leg.
When I got everything running, I broke the locomotive in. From then, I had a lot of fun playing with the train until I ran it so much that I burnt out the second point. Same problem with the first. I ran it so much, that I burnt out the next 3 points. Now I only have one left.
That provoked me to convince her to replace all of our track with the new Lionel Fastrack. This is where we are in the process now,
At current, I just got my cast removed today. Don't go saying "Good for you", for when the cast came off, the structure and support that it previously provided are now gone, so that puts me effictivly back at square 1 [when I broke the leg] minouse the pain. Over all this ordeal, I have discovered that "You Know A Model Railroader is Suffering a Lack of Exposure to His Model Railroad When He Takes Up the Hobby of Knitting" Yes, I am guilty of knitting. I think that I have so much time on my hands that I might knit a Layout Dust Cover.
Until Next Time [If I live to a next time].
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.