TrainDad

What does one write, after a hia­tus last­ing more than two years? I have no idea. So I’ll stum­ble through a few things and then fol­low up with some more per­ti­nent posts.

WHAT HAPPENED

My day job includes design­ing spe­cial exhi­bi­tions for an art museum. In Decem­ber of 2007, right after that last post, I began work on the design and sub­se­quent instal­la­tion of a new expan­sion facil­ity. It was a mas­sive job that com­pletely con­sumed my life for well over a year. The end result is an awe­some, world-class exhi­bi­tion with an edu­ca­tional wing that is espe­cially great. I’m proud of it.

WHY I’M BACK

Well, it’s like this. This whole time I’ve been lurk­ing on the Yahoo Geo­T­rax group, and over the last week or so the dis­cus­sion has turned to mak­ing cou­plers for Geo­T­rax. If you’ve read my past posts you know that’s a sub­ject dear to my heart, and it finally gave me the gen­tly nudge to get mov­ing again.

ABOUT THAT TRIP

Holy cow, that camp­ing trip was amaz­ing. I had never camped on the beach before, and the expe­ri­ence was fan­tas­tic. I’ll give an off-topic post with more details.

ABOUT THOSE COUPLERS

I cast plas­tic cou­plers that work iden­ti­cally to the stan­dard Geo­T­rax cou­plers. They were bril­liant, but had one sig­nif­i­cant issue … I couldn’t fig­ure out a good way to attach them to the ridicu­lously wide range of Geo­T­rax engine and car designs. That had me stymied for a long time, but about a month ago I acci­den­tally ran into the per­fect solu­tion: epoxy putty. So I’m back on track. I’ll get a post up with the details and some pic­tures, and I’ll get them up for sale as soon as possible.

ONE MORE THING

Before I get into all those, I’m going to post on what I see as the worst thing that’s hap­pened to Geo­T­rax since they stopped mak­ing Geo: the intro­duc­tion of track that doesn’t have spring-loaded cou­plers. It’s my lat­est soap­box and I want to beg you for help to get it fixed.

Thanks for the sup­port. See you again soon!