When guests come over!

Marty I'm glad you had a nice evening with good friends that's what it's all about, Mr Murphy is always hanging around

every time I have someone over Mr Murphy comes over.

Thanks, Alex

So was it the classmates that were simple or the loops or were you saying that your classmates were simple loops? 

I'm glad the gathering went well and that nothing went wrong.  I know how that feels when you want to demo something for non-train people who are less likely to understand.  Even better that you got them thinking about their trains!

A couple years ago, we had good ol' Ed Boyle here to see the trains, along w/ a few other guests. I made the mistake of taking a phone call in the midst of hosting the event and turned the TMCC control over to Ed. Never again. Right away, a train wreck.

So...

Never again a phone call accepted w/ company in the trainroom.

Never again (when guests are in the trainroom) multiple trains on the same track (from that day forward, 10 trains =10 tracks.

Anytime again, good ol' Ed in the trainroom, yes, anytime!

Frank

Hi Marty, some people love my trains and others, well just don't get it. My brother was over one night, who I love very much I might add. Nick looked at  my trains then turned to my wife and asked," have you ever thought about all the things you could do with this room"? Ha, ha, ha all the neanderthals  cackled! I just looked at my brother, smiled, pointed to the door and said don't let it hit you in the ---.

I too had people over last night and I had to show off my new "work in progress" layout. Now real train fans except me, but I was excited. This was the first time my girlfriend's 7 year old daughter saw the trains and she loved them! It was a great feeling. She liked them so much that when new guests came over, she wanted to show them the trains. Everything ran perfectly the first time around, then we went for a 2nd round and for some reason we couldn't get anything to run. Still not even sure why. Nonetheless, she loved the trains and that's all that mattered. 

I'm an old crank the throttle guy but use remotes when there is company viewing. It makes it easier to chat and run trains at the same time. Better stay on the ball though. Trains getting too close together or an uncouple will get you in trouble real fast.

The word's getting out in town. Frequent groups of up to 24, always arranged in advance. Using the "run a round" track in the yard to make a loop allows seven running trains, including four on the two 160 foot scale presentation loops. And so far everything is working fine,

It is amazing how well Chinese kids behave. Once i saw a young boy let his finger gently rub the top of a passing stream-liner, almost in reverence.  I knew what was happening and didn't say anything.

Marty - congratulations on cheating Mr. Murphy!  Always a great feeling. And it is always the result of good planning, hard work, and preparation. 

Well done!

George

Bill, never asked you, do they make "O" gauge toy train for the market there? Don

Very true, Jim.

Everything was humming along nicely, with approx. twenty guests in the trainroom. All ten separate loops were functioning well, which allowed me to get a little too content and involved in conversation. Unnoticed, on one of the second level tracks, a coupler let go of one of the old (circa 1940's) black gondollas, and the FM Trainmaster ran 'round and hit its own caboose. I sure wasn't going to climb up there and fish it all out in front of guests, so I shut that track off and let the derailment sit there until the next day. We had enough other stuff to enjoy together.

Oh well. I've come to expect a little of Murphy's Law when I crank the whole shebang up.

Frank

Don,

I don't think they do O scale, but they do make HO and N too I think. A friend of mine at my train club is married to a Chinese lady, he goes there regularly, and has a very impressive collection of Chinese HO. I've also seen Chinese live steam in G scale.

Glad everything worked smoothly. I may not be so generous next time 

After reassuring guests that they can't break anything (the worst they can do is go too fast around an 027 curve), everyone wants to try to run the trains.

MARTY,

  Glad all went well with your trains.  Hope you got some of those GUYZ hooked? Bring them to YORK and show them a real good time.  Hope the beverages were cold and flowing.

laz57

Very true.  I believe you and I have almost had a couple wrecks on the Glancy layout due to my getting distracted for a minute.  Definitely not a good thing (and I know now that SD80's and an 0-8-0 shouldn't run on the same track )