found these at savemart this morning. my gut was telling me yesterday to go and have a look, but i ran out of time, so went today. i found terence first and got him for parts. the posts next to his driver are snapped off. the milk tanker needs a new hook coupler and a general clean, but is otherwise ok. the tomica is a "max", which i have. its no use, being an end car, but i can keep it for parts. it has no coupler at all. the blocks i just grabbed as they had trains on. i took the canadiana set out to the club yesterday to see how the caboose would go. seems to track really nice. i had them running about over an hour without it uncoupling or derailing at all. pleased with that! i asked rob to show me how to convert the couplers to ez-mates, as thats what everything else i run has.
the canadiana caboose arrived today, so thrilled!! it needed a chimney, which i fixed by removing one from a union pacific which i dont use. i had to poke the broken "stump" out of the canadiana and then use scissors to thin out the post so it would fit. i love how the two look together. best $5 ive spent in a long time! over the last couple of days ive made a couple of adjustments to a couple of pages. the pages that have a pop-out menu [show layouts, other collections and events and excursions] now each have a "base page", with hyperlinked thumbnails to the various pages. each thumb has a caption over the bottom half saying which page each leads to. thought it would tidy things up a bit.
blair and i had a good weekend away at silver stream. it was a long, tiring time, but it was great fun!
i went to blairs mums at 9.30 saturday morning to help him pack up the sodor layout. it comes apart in 3 sections. he didnt have the right drill bit to remove the screws, so had to do it by hand. we finally got it loaded right before the rain and went down to sanson to collect his christmas thomas layout, which folds open and closed. it was raining enough to be annoying by the time we got there, so we had to wrap the layout in a tarpaulin to try and keep it dry. blair had booked a cabin for us to stay in, so we stopped there first to unload our bedding and less essentials. we didnt get to silver stream til about 5 or 6pm. they had already started pulling locos and wagons out, so blair was able to unload the trailer and truck and we were able to get both layouts put together and ready for display, which saved us heaps of time the next day. we finally dropped into our beds at 11, after stopping at mcdonalds for tea. blairs alarm went at 7 the next morning, and we were onsite by 8, putting the engines and scenery on, as well as hooking up the power and making adjustments. silver stream opened at 10, and we had a steady stream of visitors of all ages from then until we were packing up at 4. there were no major issues, which is good. we finished packing up and loading by 6, and i walked in the door by 10pm, uploading photos to email to blair before finally crawling into bed. i went back to his mums today to help him unload and get the sodor layout set up again. that took another 4 hours or so. it was good to be back down there again. been a long time. photos of the day are here |
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