[Accrs-ho] Equipment Problems

[ACCRS HO Scale]

I was at the club, the Wednesday after Christmas, to help work on the 
switch up by the new bridge.  Gary did most of the work, but it took two 
people to make it operational.

In order to look at the track and see if corrections were needed, we 
needed a couple of long cars.   We got two auto racks from the auto 
plant and used them to test the track.

It was very interesting as both had a coupler missing at one end.   The 
cars had been damaged and the couplers were broken out from a collision 
with and other car or even between the two cars or some other 
catastrophe.  I brought the cars home and repaired them.

*_This is a poor way to treat our equipment._ *  If you have an accident 
and cars are broken, don't  just put them back and not say anything 
about the damage.   If you have the necessary skills to repair them, it 
would be nice if you did the repair.   Why depend on someone else to fix 
something that happened when you were using the equipment?   Skills or 
otherwise, there is a box upstairs that is for "bad order" equipment.   
Put the broken equipment up there, in the box, add a note about the 
problem, what happened, etc.  I will find it there and make the 
necessary repairs, if possible.

We are club.   Members are supposed to be responsible for making sure 
that we treat our equipment carefully and if a problem occurs, report 
the problem.   We are not supposed to be a place where you can come and 
just play trains and let others clean up any problems you create such as 
just putting back broken car and not reporting the problem.

Dean
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