Lee, sounds like something I'd like to see next year. Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I have to report on how the members of the Cuyahoga Valley S Gaugers > spent this last Father's Day. The local Metroparks (Cuyahoga County Parks > System) Museum has what it calls "Train Days" every year on Fathers Day > weekend. Although the museum is mainly devoted to the history of the Ohio > Canal system of the 1825 to 1913 era, on this day they go all out to promote > trains. > They bring in several sizes and types of model train layouts, including > our 14 by 32 foot hi rail code .148 layout, they have Bluegrass live music, > and movies and live lecturers on train history in the Ohio area. Several of > us volunteered as lecturers on railroad and canal history and as a lecturers > on toy trains and the modeling hobby. There were eleven train layouts from > "Z" to live steam there and even a big train pulled by a Jeep disguised as a > Santa Fe F3 for the kids to enjoy. > There were naturalists who led groups of hikers to the high trestle over > the Cuyahoga Valley Gorge on the southern bypass the NS uses to bypass > downtown Cleveland. It is always busy so hikers got a good sight of real > trains during the day. > Our layout was mobbed all day long, with kids and parents stacked up > sometimes three and four deep to see the layout running. We had to keep two > of our guys inside to take care if the running operation, while three more > had to keep outside the layout to keep the little hands from touching and > derailing the trains off the track. Attendance was over 5500 people for the > day so it was definitely a good crowd. > Our members loved it and loved working with all the next generation of > modelers. We all did our bit for S gauge this weekend! Lee McCarty- Pres. > CVSGA > > In a message dated 6/18/2012 7:59:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I hope all you gentlemen had as good a Father's Day weekend as I had! I did > nothing but what I wanted to do. I finally got the layout fully cleaned of > chicken dust. Having never brought chicks indoors before, I was horrified to > see how thoroughly it permeated everything. Fortunately, I had the foresight > to remove locomotives from the room, and I'm thankful I have no scenery. > Still, it took two full days with vacuum and brush. It's probably the > cleanest it's ever been, and I threw out a good deal of clutter. > > I discovered a dead section of track one locomotive length long that was > never there before. Turns out I got carried away cutting expansion gaps > recently and isolated this section between feeders. 15 minutes and I was up > and running. > > I was also having some mysterious derailments at turnouts. I've purchased > several older used cars lately and tried them out for the first time. I > never checked the wheel gauge apparently, because they were all too narrow. > I assume the "new" standards widened the gauge? I also have a cobbled > Centerline track cleaner with Ace trucks. The wheels were so frozen on the > axles that I almost gave up trying to twist them free. Persistence prevailed > and it too is breezing through the turnouts. > > Ed Kozlowsky > Sanford, Maine > > > > > >
