Posted By leftyfretguy on 03/03/2008 7:16 PM...I realized why you guys like running your engines on top of fences...I totally understand how much easier it must be on a raised track! (maybe my next one will be raised - at least part of it) Matt
Not all of us who run trains on fences are paid-up and past-it old farts /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/tongue2.gif
I prefer some height to my track for a number of reasons, but prime are long-ago injuries in a tanking accident that left me in a wheelchair for a while, and the fact that our daughter, a great fan of trains when she lived at home, was permanently in a wheelchair anyhow, and found that trying to place anything on a ground level track was nigh-on impossible.
That plus the simple fact of bending down with a thirty-pound+ loco and wiggling thirty-two invisible wheels around until they fit can get pretty frustrating...
Dont worry, live long enough and you'll be happy to do it.
Best wishes
tac
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