[Accrs] Head count

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Good old person to person contact is best.   Sure technology is a 
wonderful thing, but for us, it really doesn't seem like the way to 
go.   I would rather see us do more on the layout.

We could add another lightning bolt or two.   We could change out all 
those hot colored lights with LED's.   It would make it cooler in the 
building.  Adding the hot box detector on 37 with speakers by the 
control panel would be a nice addition.

I also would like to see a concerted effort to clean and rehab the club 
cars.  Some of them need to go in the dumpster.  They have really come 
to the end of being useful.  I have worked on several cars that need 
repair but I can't do it all.   I know that each of us have a period we 
like to model.  With that said, I think that freight cars that can't 
resonably be used in a semi modern era of mid 70's and on should be 
dropped from the club freight cars.   Those are the ones in the worst 
shape.   Cars like the green pipe loads are nice, but they have old 
friction bearing trucks.   If we want to continue to use them, replacing 
the trucks with modern roller bearing trucks might be an idea.

WE just need to get everything back to as close to like new as we can 
get it.

Dean




On 7/8/2017 11:42 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
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> How much will it cost and are you volunteering to set it up and maintain it?  Will it say hello to visitors and answer their questions?
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> Gary
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