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This morning I was up in the third floor and ran trains - set up and ran my entire layout, for the first time in over four months. When my wife died I just lost interest in them. I can't explain why but it was like a switch went off. Months went by without my even going up there. Rats could have set up shop in the layout, for all I knew.
But my oldest boy and his family are coming tomorrow for Thanksgiving, and my grandkids, who I have not seen in several years due to my late wifes long illness, asked their dad if I still had my trains. Last time they were here they loved the trains . . . My son told me they were looking forward to them again. So I spent yesterday up there. There were no rats nests - nothing to be concerned about. I did have to vaccuum dust off of everything, and I wore out two track erasers hand polishing three hundred plus feet of track, then servicing and setting up locos and trains. All three I am running are are LC+ locos so the grandkids can run them with the remotes.
What is good about a layout and model trains is, except for the track tarnishing a bit, and the locos needing oil, etc., it all works even if left alone for months. Everything worked, even the operating modified slots car street system I made.
I must admit it was fun this morning. Although I do not feel as much enthusiasm as I once did for them, they are fun, and I did look at the back quarter of the layout, which is all torn up in anticipation of re-doing the south end of my downtown area, and think "that might be fun." So, I will be running trains alot this week I think, and maybe, over the winter, rebuilding upper Main Street area, and Detective Avenue again.
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But my oldest boy and his family are coming tomorrow for Thanksgiving, and my grandkids, who I have not seen in several years due to my late wifes long illness, asked their dad if I still had my trains. Last time they were here they loved the trains . . . My son told me they were looking forward to them again. So I spent yesterday up there. There were no rats nests - nothing to be concerned about. I did have to vaccuum dust off of everything, and I wore out two track erasers hand polishing three hundred plus feet of track, then servicing and setting up locos and trains. All three I am running are are LC+ locos so the grandkids can run them with the remotes.
What is good about a layout and model trains is, except for the track tarnishing a bit, and the locos needing oil, etc., it all works even if left alone for months. Everything worked, even the operating modified slots car street system I made.
I must admit it was fun this morning. Although I do not feel as much enthusiasm as I once did for them, they are fun, and I did look at the back quarter of the layout, which is all torn up in anticipation of re-doing the south end of my downtown area, and think "that might be fun." So, I will be running trains alot this week I think, and maybe, over the winter, rebuilding upper Main Street area, and Detective Avenue again.
👍). Good luck over the holidays, and welcome back to your layout!
