Running Bear's November 2025 Coffee Shop

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santafewillie said:
So I am waiting for a special package from ScaleTrains and UPS sends me an E-Mail letting me know that I can follow my package. So when I click on the link, this is what I get.
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Why send the damn E-Mail to begin with?
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I guess you live too far out in the sticks 😂 .

Usually it works but once in a while I see that same problem. The driver's truck or his handheld or whatever sends the location data probably is in a comms blind spot or otherwise is erroring out on upload and the last data it uploaded has timed out.
 
Fedex is the worst at telling folks that a package has arrived. The gun store I work does a lot of transfers for folks. Fedex's system tells folks at 8AM their gun has been delivered when it is loaded on their truck 60 miles away. We usually don't see the gun until mid-late afternoon. It is a real aggravation as some poor folks don't call, they just drive over [sometimes taking off from work!] and the gun won't be there for hours.
 


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Just bought this little Kyoto sight seeing train and have had to work on it already.
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She ran great for two days but started stalling badly for the last two. I couldn't figure out how to separate the drawbar without total destruction, so I broke out the instruction sheet to see if they sold the drawbar separately, just in case. Well, didn't find what I needed but saw something much more valuable.
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The itty-bitty joint thing that keeps splitting after 20+ years! I've been searching for this for a while and need a lot of them to fix my old stuff, especially the RDC Budds that I had recently remotored. I am going to be buying a lot of these since I expect them to become unobtainium again.

Let me know if any of you need this thing. I'm going to be ordering tomorrow.
 
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sheesh...

long time no coffee break for me.
iam still here i have to say :D but lot of work (Airport is up and running, but thick fog outside Autumn i guess).
also lot of work at home, and with my new webshop also a bit of work (could be more for my liking haha).
but next week i have a week off. lot of work around the house but also some chill hours with my gf on top of a mountain with spa. will take some pictures to show in two weeks ;)

maybe i also will have some hours for the layout next week, would be great, to get started on the new section and the lift out bridge.

cheers
Marco
 
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