My apologies, I have not been diligent in keeping you guys informed on this one. I did buy some stuff, but not everything that we’d hoped for. I probably could have done this better, so I apologize.
Jim is a super nice and friendly little 82-year-old Italian man, and as such, he was breaking exactly zero stereotypes. He was very chatty and it was hard to keep the conversation focused with him. I also had the problem that my GBC, despite being way better than previous models, was still fussy and required attention, and so I couldn’t leave during public hours to talk to him, and I was also giving you guys as much time as possible to let me know what you wanted, and so I didn’t settle up with him til 3pm on Sunday. And what I regret is that I did not have a firm commitment with him in place before then, because although he was not there as a vendor, he did have a small ‘9V train train track for sale’ sign taped to his display, and somebody else bought all the straight track on Sunday. He said it was an older woman with her grandson and she said ‘I want it all’ and paid cash on the spot.
I had planned on buying five bags for myself (this would’ve done 3 LUG tables double-tracked), and so Tim and Frost, you don’t owe me any money, but I also didn’t get you any track.
Bob, I got you an oval of old dark grey track, a controller, a power cable for the controller, and a wire to connect the controller to the track. They are $45, $12, $8, and $10 respectively, for a total of $75. I also bought myself two controllers and two cables, since I use them for both trains and GBC, I could use a couple more. I mailed him a check last week. We’ll have to figure out how to get that stuff to you, I could possibly drive them to you at some point if it means I get to come in for a few minutes and see your HP display in person, Frost can tell you that I am very appreciative of an awesome Lego basement.
I also left you with one problem though that you’re now going to have to solve yourself – you need an engine to power any train you build. It did occur to me on Sunday to ask about that for you, but Jim only had one that wasn’t for sale, he said a friend of his bought all the rest, and he said they’re expensive on BL. But without one, the rest of this stuff I just got you is useless, unless you’re content to let somebody else supply the train every time.