At 06:29 PM 3/21/04 +1100, you wrote:
>I seem to remember saying to a group at Diamonhead once that my
>first loco had more in the scrap bucket than was on the engine!
Gordon,
My comment came out of a conversation with Bob Paule in 1992 at the
NGRwy convention in Reston VA (where the need for a "Diamondhead" as
hatched also). We both had similar model engineering backgrounds and had
migrated to Ga1 from larger scales. I found the the initial adjustment to
working in a smaller scale produced a larger than usual number of scrappers
and I commented that I put those all in a box, and realized that if in the
end the loco weighed more than the scrap box I suppose I had prevailed and
should count the project a success. For some reason Bob thought that was
profound (there's no accounting for such beliefs) and I think may have
mentioned it in one of his articles in SitG.
Regards,
Harry
