Scheduling sigh

There were three things I could have done on Sunday: go to ET and be alumly, go to work and hunt down a memory leak, or stay home, do laundry, hack on my personal compiler, and play with the train. Clearly the first two of these are "should"s, and I went with the first option. And yet I still feel like the best use of my time would have been neither of the things I "should" have done. Eit.

Lots of little trains

As promised, I made my way out to the Amherst Rail Society's Big 2005 Railroad Hobby Show in Springfield. It was...big, taking up three buildings at the Big E. There were many, many booths of people selling model railroad paraphernalia. I decided I didn't need any of it (right now my shopping list is just small things, my wish list is the MEC GP40, and I want to build my own DCC system) and so saved myself potentially vast sums of money.

But the big highlight of the show was the layouts. It looks like there were 14 layouts, in N, HO, O, and G scales. They were all very modular (which actually kind of makes sense if you're dragging things to shows). astra_nomer: there were a few booths that sold S-gauge things, I picked up a flyer from Port Lines Hobby Supply.

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