Alan, Rich, Thanks to each of you for the hours you have invested in creating, maintaining and moderating the O Gauge Railroading Forums. It was something done for the greater good, a quantity of which we do not see enough these days. If you consider the number of members, and particularly the small number of high-maintenance members who — according the Pareto Principle — will likely take up 80% of the uncompensated hours you spend on the Forums, then you two should each receive twenty merits for doing the right thing, for the right reason in spite of the frustration involved. Unfortunately, as you surely know, it is permissible to be generous with demerits but we are required to be stingy with merits. Only for actions well beyond the norm, and embodying the highest aspirations of railroading, is the awarding of merits permitted, and, always, authorization by the General Manager or a higher ranking officer is required.
Therefore, it is my honor to award the permanent record of each of you gentlemen, ten merits, for outstanding devotion to the O Gauge Railroading Forums, as well as for leadership in enjoining others to participate in both the conviviality and financial support of the friendly online meeting place of an incredibly diverse group of individuals united by their interest in O gauge model trains.
One of my core beliefs is that, when practicable, it is best to praise publicly and criticize privately. Therefore, I am adding this to the message thread entitled “If You Have Something Nice to Say, Say It Here.”
Well, you all have done a wonderful job with the remarks and covered everything.
So I'll say a nice thing about how much I appreciate my wife of 50 plus years for putting up with me and my train hobbies.
As well as supporting all the thousands I have spent playing with trains. 
Larry
The touching comments and goodwill warm the heart, especially for our remembered posters.
Tom, I'll tell all my friends what a swell guy you are. Don
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Train time out for Friday nite lites!
Kind thoughts and prayers for President Trump who has been hospitalized. And, for first Lady Melania with covid also.
Amen, Ron! Prayers for President and First Lady Trump for a full recovery!
@scale rail posted:Tom, I'll tell all my friends what a swell guy you are. Don
There are some folks who would disagree with you, Don (they see me like this 
) but I do have a soft spot for kittens and puppies.
And, wb47, I did the same as you -- took time off from trains and attended a Friday Night high school football game out here on the Texas prairie.
Tom, I want to thank you, I had sent you an e-mail about the LSHR's club and you were kind enough to post a message to their e-mail board and I immediately heard from a couple of guys in the club and I now belong to them, thru your generosity, I was able to complete a quest and now I will be able to go to the baggage car and start running my trains on the layout. Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help and I really look forward to being able to meet you in person one of these days when things settle down.
If you are in the Indianapolis area and have a car, you really need to drive up to Muffin's Trains in Athens, Indiana and see his layout + train collection. The store is in another building.
Let's see....OK....Chuck Genna is the most handsome OGR forum member (does this get me a free Allentown train show ticket?).
Joe Hohmann LOL Leave it to you to come up with a comment like that! Please report on Chuck's response! 
J. Motts Your comment made me remember the kind actions of the members of the Pittsburgh Independent HiRailers, many of whom are on the Forum. Though just a visitor to their modular setups at shows, they took me under their wing at my two visits to York, even letting me room with them. Since I haven't seen any of them since February except in cyberspace, I have felt a void not being able to chat in person.
