On a beautiful winter's afternoon we had a near complete turn out of our
very own G men - Greg, Grant, George and Geoff - lacking only our other
Geoff.
Greg, back from his inspection of countries to the North, "assisted" Derek
with transferring the Digitrax Command Station and Booster from the old layout
to the new. And then they tried to connect these to the new layout in a manner
that would make things run. Greg is probably still waking in the small hours
screaming "Why does it say 'Trk=Idle'?" It made me so glad that all I did a few
weeks ago was to hook up the Zephyr unit, and simply run trains.
This week, I stuck to my plan and finished the track at Stanley Creek
Freight Yard. Even installed point motors, right up to the time when the
penultimate combination refused to work. Three point motors later, I fear that
the point is the root of all problems. So, having had the immortal cup of tea,
I went home.
Martin continued to combine pieces of cork into a facsimile of rock faces
along the walls of the chasm that has opened up between the quarry and
Mousehole. George, after a brief session at the quarry with a very tiny saw,
went off to join his fellow G men on the learning curve. Looking in there later
on, I found that they had spent the afternoon turning a once nearly finished
layout into some thing that looks like Donald Trump's preferred vision for North
Korea. We are now well on the way to handing that area back to the Seniors
Committee to fill with their own junk.
Don't forget it is our AGM next week - don't worry, it won't take much
longer than our average tea break.
Peter
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