Sunday after Christmas
Sounds like an old math problem: Tiny and John went to the Mall to run trains. They each were there for 5 hrs. They overlapped half of their time with each other. How long did they run trains?
A. Don't know
B. Don't care
C. Don't ask
D. 7 1/2 hours
Actually that worked out good for both of us and the Mall got more train time than expected. Today there were a lot of people looking at trains, I thought maybe it would drop off but not today at least. Santa was gone but we had as many people and kids as before. He is a terrific Santa by the way. I have not seen it but Tiny said he saw our videos on the GGP website. One of the videos was of Santa with the Veterans. I will have to try and find it. Today was a fun day running trains. I would put on an egg liner on the mainline and see how many laps it took to catch up with our GP38-2 train. All of our Applications were gone, I folded up some more and put then out in the holders. The supply of people seems steady and continuous. There is probably no better place where we could set up a display in a nice atmosphere and be able to attract such a good audience. There is no doubt that we have educated the public greatly about G Scale trains. Most conversations begin with the question "What Gauge are these?" and it goes from there. Many people take pictures of the display too. I have observed we have a large following with a thirty year plus span of ages and then drop down to the Thomas crowd with not a lot in between. I don't want to volunteer to do one, but I bet if we had a Facebook page it would be attracting a lot of those followers. For example, Channel 6 just said "If you have storm pictures" go to our Facebook Page and paste them on it.
Take a look at pictures/video from today.
A. Don't know
B. Don't care
C. Don't ask
D. 7 1/2 hours
Actually that worked out good for both of us and the Mall got more train time than expected. Today there were a lot of people looking at trains, I thought maybe it would drop off but not today at least. Santa was gone but we had as many people and kids as before. He is a terrific Santa by the way. I have not seen it but Tiny said he saw our videos on the GGP website. One of the videos was of Santa with the Veterans. I will have to try and find it. Today was a fun day running trains. I would put on an egg liner on the mainline and see how many laps it took to catch up with our GP38-2 train. All of our Applications were gone, I folded up some more and put then out in the holders. The supply of people seems steady and continuous. There is probably no better place where we could set up a display in a nice atmosphere and be able to attract such a good audience. There is no doubt that we have educated the public greatly about G Scale trains. Most conversations begin with the question "What Gauge are these?" and it goes from there. Many people take pictures of the display too. I have observed we have a large following with a thirty year plus span of ages and then drop down to the Thomas crowd with not a lot in between. I don't want to volunteer to do one, but I bet if we had a Facebook page it would be attracting a lot of those followers. For example, Channel 6 just said "If you have storm pictures" go to our Facebook Page and paste them on it.
Take a look at pictures/video from today.
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