Playing trains
Entry posted by Vistisen
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I am lucky to be godparent to a nine-year-old autistic girl. One of the few things she does is play fantasy games with a dragon. Chard Junction is often the scene of carnage bought about by me 'moddeling' but today it suffered an even worse fate: attack by dragon, The sheep were under attack and saved by being loaded into a truck and driven off at the limited top speed of my new Hornby 48DS. It actually managed to escape and hide in the tunnel that leads to the fiddle yard. She has now reluctantly gone home. While clearing up the destruction, I realised that for an hour I actually played trains, and it was great fun. I often get annoyed by my lack of skills, points that derail stock, or the constant need to clean track. But playing trains IS fun. And as part of the escape I can inform that the 48Ds coped rather well with home made points and could pull a train consisting of its own flatbed, an Hornby custard and cream mark1 coach and an open private wagon containing 24 sheep and four lambs up the incline up out of the fiddle yard. Its total distance travelled in the last hour is about 100 times longer than it has done since I got it in September last year. In fact it is now probably run in.
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