Joe, your progress is inspiring.
This has been an interesting week of work. It began with high expectations... like a week of fresh strawberries in June. Here it is Saturday and the strawberries seem to be more like s—-.
On the positive side, we received an exciting box which contained six vehicles. It was all we were expecting and more. We will have more on that next week.
Sanding and painting was completed on all roundhouse wood so that we are ready to deviate from Dennis Brennan’s instructions and frame the interior back to front instead of front to back as the instructions do. Paula’s brother Charles is in charge of that. I sand and paint, arrange everything, and will cut, sand, apply glue, and hand it to him on the second level. BUT, he lives near Raleigh and works at a private school there where they are frantically getting ready to open next month in a Covid preventive environment. No telling when he can get here as COVID is exploding in NC.
Roundhouse is on hold.
We received a new passenger consist that had been totally upgraded. For the most part, it looks nice but there are major problems and most of it has to be returned for correction. Disappointing to say the least.
And believe me, I am saying the least. I won’t mention the upgraded station sounds diner that shorts out everything when power is turned on. Who created that problem?
T W Trainworx announced a new church kit about a week ago, not cheap, and we ordered one. We have a scene planned and hoped that this would be the perfect building. It arrived yesterday in a plain box so we opened it up. After building kits from Andre and Dennis Brennan, we had high expectations. T W Trainworx is supposed to be first class, right. This will close out the week on a high note, right.
WRONG. New customer and an opportunity to WOW with a letter saying thanks, a brochure advertising their products, an example of quality that people would expect. Well, if not that, how about some really good directions.
WRONG AGAIN. Just a box full of MDF and other stuff that we put out of the way. No directions on the website. Come on, you guys are supposed to be quality but resemble Lionel.
I sent them a message suggesting that they buy a kit from Andre or Dennis and learn from them. By last night, we were just plain over it.
Still have hope. E-mail from Steve Nelson 10:30 last night. One NS caboose with camera left. Completed the order including paying and two messages from Steve in less than five minutes. Mr Muffin and company are a WOW. Of course, a Lionel product is scary but that isn’t his fault.
I think I will go spray Roundup.