OleSmokey
Well-Known Member
yah Toot, forget MacGyver.isms, we have Jim.isms!
Sounds about right! Jim great idea and love the finished turntable.
yah Toot, forget MacGyver.isms, we have Jim.isms!
And not only on this forum, but a number of others.Thanks all. Actually, I taught the MacGyvers little or nothing, instead I concentrated on model railroaders, knowing nothing about model railroading myself.
Welcome 2 tracks. You can thanks Photobucket for ruining this, and other threads. I'm very slowly trying to fill in the blanks, but I will probably be dead before I finish.
Just ran across a portion of an old letter I had composed for a maker of DCC equipment....There was a time when I was considering setting up a model train layout over in Thailand,...in a coffee shop/explorers club setting. I figured it would a real threat for the Thai's to see, as well as some of the many expats now living there. On30 would have been a better size for this sort of layout. I had already begun to collect some of the Bachman stuff, particularly as it came on sale.
I am just retiring and will move to Thailand to live with my new Thai wife. I am contemplating taking my HO model train layout with me, and/or building a new one over there for display in a 'unique coffee shop atmosphere' I am planning. It will be an Explorers Club theme with a library of world travel books and videos, and a model train layout. I'm anticipating that a good portion of the expat community will visit on occasions, and the 'sound' features should be a draw for the Thai children and their parents.
I do not know of the extent of model railroading in SE Asian, but I would suspect that it should have some following:
1) There are quite a few older western guys retired there, both American and European
2) There are periods of very hot weather that would drive indoor hobbies much in the same manner as cold winter does here.
Toot, I tried that and no luck... Jim
One of my buddies at softball has a nephew that just got fired from Photobucket. I got his number and talked for a while. He was let go due to "mismanagement" which caused the need for 'downsizing!' He wasn't really upset, just a bit baffled as to the new direction of the company. MONEY, one way or another, doesn't seem to be flowing into FB's bank like they thought it would. So, maybe not all is lost??? Jim
Okay, some good news for a change. Look at page 380, Post 3784. I got the photo there from Imgur. It is kind of large and I don't know how to resized it. Any of you know how? The good thing is I did not have to go through all the steps required to get rid of photobucket's post. Progress for sure. Jim