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Oh, yeah. I know. I thought my wife was
asking, "Well, how much these things
cost?" I said, "Yeah, I don't know. It
depends upon that's probably
nowadays.
Yeah.
more
expensive more options,
right? We we because of our system, we
only can really effectively
use the functions, but this one has
function. Well, I think these are but we
have people that have
some big nose on them and everything and
real modern ones, you know, they got you
got to punch it on if you want to. You
can push the tire in the front, but we
don't have. So, that's why sometimes
sometimes you Yeah, I know that damn
thing sticks out. Um
that's why I say I try to I try to get
my program so that
have to carry
this back,
right?
I wanted to bring one down to get it
running so at least I could, you know,
have a train to run. You got more to
run. And I'll have to get the, you know,
why do I call you? I know your name's
Ron. I keep calling you Roy.
But uh I might leave the couplers that I
have on there so at least I can run some
trains because otherwise I might not be
able to run any trains unless
I can
still start pulling 60
cars around here. USS
America in Florida. In May, Florida, was
it a reef off? That is
USS America. She was pulling out the
north of Virginia.
The North Virginia. USS America. Okay.
CV66. Okay.
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As a jet
mechanic jet engine, it's very boring.
There was nothing creative about it. I
mean, if there was a problem, it's a go
replace that component. Okay.
Most of the time we were taking them out
of the cans and putting them on the
bird, putting them back in the can, and
not fixing the engine. I'm like, why am
I here?
You don't need a mechanic to put them in
the can.
There we go. That's what my goal was for
today.
How's it going?
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Okay.
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Hey, George.
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You never get the balance.
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all the same
size. So I actually cut
down the column that Looks just
like this one.
birthday. See the trucks going up.
What was your YouTube channel? RV
YouTube channel. Dude RV. Dude RV. Dude
RV.com.
But if you just Google Dude RV, you'll
you'll find me.
I have a playlist created. I'm not sure
how much YouTube you're familiar with,
but I have a playlist for all the train
stuff. It goes away if you're not into
watching RV campground tours and things
of that nature.
This is where we go.
You will not find bridge like this in
Texas long.
All kind
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of the other thing we have the following
train.
Cut the switch. Oh wow.
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This
back.
Yeah, this right
here is not like the other.
And
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then put your build a ladder on on this
side over here. Take your like hoodie or
whatever.
Yeah. Put another or Yeah. And then pin
it on here. Right. So it so it stays
right.
Pardon me, gentlemen. Sorry to interrupt
you.
Okay. It's I guess I would have to put a
little piece in it if I wanted to make
them like 2 and 12 in or something like
that.
Yeah. So you want to add inch or so
here.
You're
still put
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Yeah, you can't get
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This is a little crazy.
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general straight shot.
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Now we're getting
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Yes.
$10 a bag.
I don't think you'll find it on some of
these buildings, but little when you're
editing this, you might find what
modelers do sometimes is the back side
of buildings. Well, so a lot of the
people that are watching these videos
are modelers and they're looking for
ideas. I mean, I was going to say that
sometimes the back side of the building
is not correct
detailed cuz no one's going to see it,
right? But we still want to see how it
how it Oh, yeah. How it's put together
is part of the fascination.
Yeah.
size.
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That's the
guy.
Somebody looking around.
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Find
something railroad bar.
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You got
You're not supposed to. You got a
handbrake. Hold on. All
right. We got another facility.
And
this we do have two kinds of
operations we're doing
today Saturday and last Friday
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running around circles.
That's what that's what I belong to.
It's horrible. I hate
it. I hate it. It's horrible.
New
York on the wall back.
Did they show you the front section with
all the buildings lit up? Yes. Yes, sir.
They did. Turn the lights out.
That was in the very early part of the
tour. Oh, okay. So, just getting stock
footage to take back and edit. Actually,
this is a 360° camera. Oh. So when
you're on your cell phone, you can
actually look all the way around and
it's kind of like flying over your model
in a virtual reality world.
This will be a large
came
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down
before moving around.
This is
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Maybe
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I think you found
And so we have about 10 trains down
there between sessions.
Run a couple of them first so that the
yard
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man a nice effective display.