<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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 </body> </html>