Train To Nowhere

Second childhood continues as I put this on a credit card.

Positive note: Showed a day earlier than promised (Tues.) which I'd pretty much figured while obsessively watching it wend its way cross country. (Picked up in Lansing, Mich. on 20 Nov. at 1803.)

Obviously, as it only runs around & around an oval, it isn't going anywhere, but, entering want of a nail country, it is, believe it or shove it, missing just one of 28 (two per track section) fucking rail joiners, which conduct the magic juice from one piece of track to the next. I nonetheless connected it & gave it a shot, & the locomotive did run, until it hit the un-joined section & broke the tenuous connection.

End of the second test run.

Even that has a silver lining; after trekking to the wilderness of Burbank tomorrow for a serious supply of these things (US$10.00 for 36) at least I won't come back over the Hywd. Hills & set it up only to find it doesn't work for a less obvious reason.